diff --git a/plugins/PrivacyManager/DoNotTrackHeaderChecker.php b/plugins/PrivacyManager/DoNotTrackHeaderChecker.php
index c8c6f9df9b7..231eafcffc0 100644
--- a/plugins/PrivacyManager/DoNotTrackHeaderChecker.php
+++ b/plugins/PrivacyManager/DoNotTrackHeaderChecker.php
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
 namespace Piwik\Plugins\PrivacyManager;
 
 use Piwik\Common;
+use Piwik\Piwik;
 use Piwik\Tracker\IgnoreCookie;
-use Piwik\Tracker\Request;
 
 /**
  * Excludes visits where user agent's request contains either:
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
  * - X-Do-Not-Track header (used by AdBlockPlus and NoScript)
  * - DNT header (used by Mozilla)
  *
- * Note: visits from Internet Explorer and other browsers that have DoNoTrack enabled by default will be tracked anyway.
  */
 class DoNotTrackHeaderChecker
 {
@@ -70,11 +69,11 @@ public function isDoNotTrackFound()
             return false;
         }
 
-        $request = new Request($_REQUEST);
-        $userAgent = $request->getUserAgent();
+        $shouldIgnore = false;
 
-        if ($this->isUserAgentWithDoNotTrackAlwaysEnabled($userAgent)) {
-            Common::printDebug("INTERNET EXPLORER enable DoNotTrack by default; so Piwik ignores DNT IE browsers...");
+        Piwik::postEvent('PrivacyManager.shouldIgnoreDnt', array(&$shouldIgnore));
+        if($shouldIgnore) {
+            Common::printDebug("DoNotTrack header ignored by Matomo because of a plugin");
             return false;
         }
 
@@ -116,40 +115,4 @@ protected function isHeaderDntFound()
         return (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_DO_NOT_TRACK']) && $_SERVER['HTTP_X_DO_NOT_TRACK'] === '1')
             || (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_DNT']) && substr($_SERVER['HTTP_DNT'], 0, 1) === '1');
     }
-
-    /**
-     *
-     * @param $userAgent
-     * @return bool
-     */
-    protected function isUserAgentWithDoNotTrackAlwaysEnabled($userAgent)
-    {
-        $browsersWithDnt = $this->getBrowsersWithDNTAlwaysEnabled();
-        foreach($browsersWithDnt as $userAgentBrowserFragment) {
-            if (stripos($userAgent, $userAgentBrowserFragment) !== false) {
-                return true;
-            }
-        }
-        return false;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Some browsers have DNT enabled by default. For those we will ignore DNT and always track those users.
-     *
-     * @return array
-     */
-    protected function getBrowsersWithDNTAlwaysEnabled()
-    {
-        return array(
-            // IE
-            'MSIE',
-            'Trident',
-
-            // Maxthon
-            'Maxthon',
-            
-            // Epiphany - https://github.com/piwik/piwik/issues/8682
-            'Epiphany',
-        );
-    }
 }
diff --git a/plugins/PrivacyManager/tests/Unit/DoNotTrackHeaderCheckerTest.php b/plugins/PrivacyManager/tests/Unit/DoNotTrackHeaderCheckerTest.php
index a0bf82e9587..e17dcc88154 100644
--- a/plugins/PrivacyManager/tests/Unit/DoNotTrackHeaderCheckerTest.php
+++ b/plugins/PrivacyManager/tests/Unit/DoNotTrackHeaderCheckerTest.php
@@ -80,37 +80,6 @@ public function test_isDoNotTrackFound_whenDntActivated_BrowserDoesNotHaveDntHea
         $this->assertFalse( $dntChecker->isDoNotTrackFound() );
     }
 
-    public function getUserAgents_whereDNTIsAlwaysEnabled()
-    {
-        return array(
-            // IE
-            array('Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Mac_PowerPC)'),
-            array('Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; OfficeLivePatch.1.3)'),
-            array('Mozilla/5.0 (IE 11.0; Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; .NET4.0E; .NET4.0C; rv:11.0) like Gecko'),
-
-            // Maxthon
-            array('Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; MAXTHON 2.0)'),
-            array('Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; Maxthon/4.2.0.4000)'),
-            array('Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Maxthon/4.4.3.1000 Chrome/30.0.1599.101 Safari/537.36'),
-
-            // With capital letters
-            array('Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) MAXTHON/4.4.3.1000 Chrome/30.0.1599.101 Safari/537.36'),
-        );
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * @dataProvider getUserAgents_whereDNTIsAlwaysEnabled
-     */
-    public function test_isDoNotTrackFound_whenDntActivated_InternetExplorerDoNotTrackIsIgnored($userAgent)
-    {
-        $dntChecker = $this->makeDntHeaderCheckerEnabled();
-
-        $this->activateDoNotTrackInBrowser();
-
-        $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] = $userAgent;
-        $this->assertFalse($dntChecker->isDoNotTrackFound());
-    }
-
     /**
      * @return Config
      */
@@ -162,4 +131,4 @@ protected function activateDoNotTrackInBrowser()
         $_SERVER['HTTP_DNT'] = '1';
     }
 }
- 
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+