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The privacy signal (GPC)

Global Privacy Control is a setting in some browsers and extensions that tells every site the visitor doesn't want their data sold or shared.

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Nothing to set: we honour it wherever the law makes it binding.

There it counts as a no to everything optional. We record it once as the visitor's decision, and their privacy choices say it was honoured.

You don't need to change this: there is no switch.

When you'd choose otherwise

In US states whose law doesn't make the signal binding, we don't treat it as a no. Visitors there can still say no in one click.
In the UK, the EU, Germany and Brazil, optional trackers already wait for a yes, so the signal changes nothing.

What visitors see, region by region

UK: Changes nothing: optional trackers already wait for a yes.
EU and EEA: As the UK.
Germany: As the UK.
California: Honoured: a no to everything optional, with no banner needed.
Other US states: Honoured in Colorado, Connecticut, Texas, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Minnesota, Oregon, Delaware, Nebraska and Maryland, and when we can't tell the state. Elsewhere, not treated as a no.
Browser sends the privacy signal (GPC): Where it is honoured, their privacy choices show that the signal was honoured, and nothing optional runs.
Brazil: As the UK.
Everywhere else: Not treated as a no, as in US states without the rule. Where the banner asks first, it changes nothing.