Block tracking using Global Privacy Control

The Do Not Track option in browsers is notoriously useless because most websites simply ignore the request. Privacy groups and browser developers are hoping a new system called Global Privacy Control (GPC) will succeed where Do Not Track failed, by telling sites that you don’t want your data to be collected and shared – and making this legally binding.

Brave and Firefox now enable GPC by default, as do Privacy Badger and DuckDuckGo (which helped create the standard). To check your browser, visit https://

globalprivacycontrol.org and look at the top of the page to see if a GPC signal is detected.

The main problem is that websites aren’t currently obliged to honour Global Privacy Control and the system itself is still being developed.