- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 11:57:22 +0000
- To: Mike West <mkwst@google.com>
- cc: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>, rigo@w3.org, squid3@treenet.co.nz, rigo@w3c.org, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
-------- In message <CAKXHy=fU4odq4Khtbxk-c+D+hkaCnJyUbEPmk8PiRN+jfND_uw@mail.gmail.com> , Mike West writes: >> But we are not seing this with DNT or private browsing mode, are we ? >> > >We are. Visit the Boston Globe in private mode, [...] Works for me, but that's maybe because I'm in GDPR-land ? >You would think that, wouldn't you. My impression is that that's not >exactly how it's playing out. I still think we should let clients set the "ephemeral" bit as appropriate. If servers react negatively to that, they automatically self-declare as not respecting the clients desire for privacy, and that seems the best outcome: It leaves the initiative with the client who gets to decide if they want to be tracked or want to boycott the sites that do so. -- 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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