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how do I turn off the do not track feature

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I searched on duckduckgo for 'do not track', found the Mozilla site, clicked download, and now that Mozilla site shows 'do not track' is turned on. I now cannot play games on any site that uses pop up boxes. I went to Mozilla's site which shows 'do not track' is turned off. So, I checked to make sure my settings allow cookies, and even typed in the name of a site and 'allowed' it Nothing changed. I went back to duck and the Mozilla site it found still says it's turned on, even though Mozilla says it's not. So, what did I download, why is it blocking games, why do different Mozilla sites say different things, and how do I fix this????

I searched on duckduckgo for 'do not track', found the Mozilla site, clicked download, and now that Mozilla site shows 'do not track' is turned on. I now cannot play games on any site that uses pop up boxes. I went to Mozilla's site which shows 'do not track' is turned off. So, I checked to make sure my settings allow cookies, and even typed in the name of a site and 'allowed' it Nothing changed. I went back to duck and the Mozilla site it found still says it's turned on, even though Mozilla says it's not. So, what did I download, why is it blocking games, why do different Mozilla sites say different things, and how do I fix this????

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try to go in menu->settings->settings->choose "Privacy" tab, here mark "Tell sites that i want to be tracked" or "Do not tell sites anything about my tracking preferences". See also the screenshot

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).

  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window.
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Thanks for the reply, but I did all of that, even typed in the name of the site and clicked 'allow'. I may have just fixed the problem. On my homepage there is a new small icon in the upper right of the page, I clicked that, and it's for the 'do not track' app. (even though Mozilla says it's not installed) When I clicked on that it gave me options to be tracked or not by each site listed. Things are working for now.