Re: Geolocation header

On 03/08/17 07:34, Guilherme Hermeto wrote:
> Browsers ask for the user permission to use the Gelolocation API and even
> though the user gives the consent once, some clients keep tracking the user
> for long after. So the potential for abuse already exists in the client. It
> isn't being introduced on this proposal.

I don't see that as a good argument for increasing the
potential for abuse. That seems like making an attack
surface bigger, which'd normally be regarded as a bad
plan.

Separately, as a happy NoScript user, I'd also prefer
to not have yet another attack vector to have to worry
about.

S.