- From: Shane M Wiley <wileys@yahoo-inc.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:13:58 +0000
- To: Walter van Holst <walter.van.holst@xs4all.nl>, "public-tracking@w3.org" <public-tracking@w3.org>
Walter, I would argue that the initial link provided to a user is in clear view such that they user knows by clicking on that link they are transacting with that party. To be clear though, any intermediate party between the initial click URL and the resulting destination would be clearly a 3rd party in my eyes as the end user had no way to detect their presence prior to interaction. - Shane -----Original Message----- From: Walter van Holst [mailto:walter.van.holst@xs4all.nl] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 10:07 AM To: public-tracking@w3.org Subject: link shorteners etc. On the wiki I have put the following proposal to deal with this issue: Add the following sentence after the first sentence of the first party definition: Accessing a particular URI does not necessarily imply intent to interact with the URI-provider, especially when that URI-provider provides a transparent conduit to other parties' content, as would be the case for content delivery networks, link shorteners and similar service providers and third parties. In such cases the URI-provider is, from a user perspective, a non-obvious participant in the network interaction. Regards, Walter
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