- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 02:36:52 +0200
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Cc: Tracking Protection Working Group WG <public-tracking@w3.org>
* Roy T. Fielding wrote: >A user already has an option for anonymous browsing by enabling one of the >various private browsing modes. The "private browsing" modes are supposed to let you browse without affecting your "normal" browsing profile; for instance, the sites you visit would not show up in the list of recently visited sites in your normal profile; but the browsing mode does not affect your user agent string or IP address or any number of other identifying features. The mode cannot and is not meant to provide anything resembling any form of anonymity to the outside world, beyond that your regular cookies are not submitted, broadly speaking. Browsing would be more "private" if instead you used a different browser where you clear private data when you start browsing, and you would have to use TOR or some other proxying solution in addition to approach any form of anonymity. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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