- From: John Simpson <john@consumerwatchdog.org>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 10:26:39 -0700
- To: Walter van Holst <walter.van.holst@xs4all.nl>, Alan Chapell <achapell@chapellassociates.com>
- Cc: public-tracking@w3.org
Alan, Include me as confused, too. I don't see how a user agent is doing tracking unless it reports back to the browser manufacturer. Is that what you mean? Can you please give some specific use cases? Thanks, John On Jul 9, 2013, at 7:45 AM, Walter van Holst <walter.van.holst@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 2013-07-09 16:23, Alan Chapell wrote: > >> RATIONALE: >> In reviewing the June draft with colleagues, it occurred to me that >> some User Agents - technically speaking - could engage in tracking. My >> sense is that it is implicit that User agents would fall under the >> definition of third party under this spec and therefore would be >> subject to certain requirements. My goal was to make that more > > This is confusing to me. Unless we are talking about certain "search bar" browser extensions that are essentially spyware, it is not obvious to me what kind of user agents you mean by this. > > Regards, > > Walter
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