- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 10:09:53 +0000
- To: Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org>
- cc: Mike West <mkwst@google.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>, squid3@treenet.co.nz, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
-------- In message <2594476.hbmTAoiaoX@hegel>, Rigo Wenning writes: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA256 > >On Monday, August 27, 2018 11:01:45 AM CEST Mike West wrote: >> > - stateless operation to become a more normal thing, e.g. I'd >> > like stateless operation to work more often/better when >> > browsing sites with which I don't have a relationship >> >> These two seem to be inextricably bound together, as it seems >> likely to me that intentionally stateless operations on the web >> today are few and far between. Basically everything interesting >> we do on the web today requires state of some kind to bind HTTP >> requests together, even when that state isn't explicitly >> user-focused (see the discussion of routing metadata Willy raised >> earlier in >> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2018JulSep/0203. >> html). > >Just a small remark: Most of the stateful interaction in plain >content browsing (HTML4.01) is required to measure outreach to >justify cost of advertisement or to make statistics. This is where it is important to remember that they are called "Human Rights" and not "Business Rights" :-) Privacy is much more important than being able to optimize profit. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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