Who wants to get asked a bunch of annoying questions every time they fire up an OS or piece of software? Nobody. Software should pick sane default settings which are in the interest of its users.
Not everyone is informed well enough to make an informed choice, and tracking is not in the interest of the user anyway, so the default being blocking (DNT) is sane. Obviously it isn't in the interest of Google, and Chrome serves Google first, and its users secondary. Education is the long term solution to just about anything and I'm all for that (I can recommend a visit to Berlin-Hohenschoenhausen Memorial [1]) but the truth is that some people are just not going to be interested in certain topics.
Case in point: back in the days, everyone received snail mail spam. At some point, civilians were able to put a standardized sticker on their postbox saying yes/no or no/no (one being more strict than the other). They'd need to pick such sticker up at the city council.
Just now in start of 2018, if you live in Amsterdam, you need a yes/yes sticker to receive spam. Is that wrong as well? Even though the spam is bad for the environment (goes to bin right away), we're living in a digital age, and postboxes in flats and such pile up gigantically? Should we've educated people better instead of making this the default?
Not everyone is informed well enough to make an informed choice, and tracking is not in the interest of the user anyway, so the default being blocking (DNT) is sane. Obviously it isn't in the interest of Google, and Chrome serves Google first, and its users secondary. Education is the long term solution to just about anything and I'm all for that (I can recommend a visit to Berlin-Hohenschoenhausen Memorial [1]) but the truth is that some people are just not going to be interested in certain topics.
Case in point: back in the days, everyone received snail mail spam. At some point, civilians were able to put a standardized sticker on their postbox saying yes/no or no/no (one being more strict than the other). They'd need to pick such sticker up at the city council.
Just now in start of 2018, if you live in Amsterdam, you need a yes/yes sticker to receive spam. Is that wrong as well? Even though the spam is bad for the environment (goes to bin right away), we're living in a digital age, and postboxes in flats and such pile up gigantically? Should we've educated people better instead of making this the default?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin-Hohensch%C3%B6nhausen_M...