Re: Privacy implications of automatic alternative selection (Re: Acessibility of <audio> and <video>)

Henri Sivonen wrote:
> Yes, a site can't accurately tell form one datapoint. However, if the 
> user's agent always requests for versions of particular kind and the 
> site can track user identity over time, the site can make a more 
> accurate guess of the reason.

If sites want to track that information for whatever reason, they will 
find a way to do so, regardless of what we do.  I think we should ignore 
this problem, since there isn't anything we can do to reliably address it.

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Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software
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Received on Friday, 12 September 2008 09:33:24 UTC