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How to respect Do Not Track header and ignore IE
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donottrack.js
// Respect do not track for all browsers. Except for IE 10 and 11 where we ignore it
var dnt_isIe10or11 = (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 10") !== -1) || (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Trident") !== -1 && navigator. userAgent.indexOf("rv:11") !== -1);
var DNT = (navigator.doNotTrack || navigator.msDoNotTrack || window.doNotTrack);
DNT = !DNT || DNT == "unspecified" || DNT == "0" ? false : true;
if (!DNT || dnt_isIe10or11) {
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
// GA loading code
}
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tdelmas commented Jun 3, 2018

@sacredwx :
https://hjnilsson.com/2015/11/30/setting-up-dnt/

Microsoft has made IE 10 & 11 set the value to true by default, in violation of the standard

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