- From: Fisher Mark <FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 95 12:43:00 PDT
- To: HTTP Working Group <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Koen Holtman writes in <199508251129.NAA01966@wswiop05.win.tue.nl>: >As a made-up statistic, under Dave's proposal, 90% of users will set >their browsers on `always do state-info', because they want to use at >least one stateful server on the web. But by doing so, these 90% of >users allow 100% of server administrators (not just the administrator >of the stateful site the user is interested in) to gather clicktrail >statistics by using (abusing) the enabled state-info support in their >browsers. 60% of the 90% of users does not care about this, the >remaining 30% would have rather had a web protocol that would give >better privacy protection. Me for one. ====================================================================== Mark Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN
Received on Friday, 25 August 1995 10:50:31 UTC