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Websites don't track people, pervasive analytics, ad and social networks do. Since they have to be included by the website owners, they're usually not "scammers-r-us" but legal companies like Google, Facebook, KISSmetrics, etc.

Supposedly, the incentive for them not to track users who have DNT enabled is the PR hit.



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