Re: [PING] ad hoc private browsing mode call - summary

> On 25 Feb 2019, at 8:26 pm, Mike West <mkwst@google.com> wrote:
> 
> 1.  Privacy with regard to data stored on a user's local machine (caches, DOM storage, history information, MotW, etc).
> 
> 2.  Privacy with regard to the browser's interaction with websites (cookies, fingerprinting, web APIs, etc).
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> 3.  Privacy with regard to the browser's non-webby features, especially those that make use of users' data (e.g. address bar integrations, telemetry engines, ad networks, safe browsing, payment systems, password managers, etc).
> 
> I hope that the group wouldn't limit itself to the second of these when defining "privacy mode". It seems like folks can reasonably make tradeoffs in all three categories (and, really, there might be more categories I'm not thinking of!).

+1. My gist drafty-thing talked about #1, #2 and an additional case - privacy from network observers. #3 is a good one too, but its relationship to standards is always going to be tricky.

Cheers,


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Received on Monday, 25 February 2019 23:14:15 UTC