- From: dolphinling <dolphinling@myrealbox.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:34:40 -0500
dolphinling wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: > >> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, dolphinling wrote: >>> Like I said before, I like the semantics of ping=. But it doesn't fit >>> into the usage model that advertisers and other trackers want. >>> Semantically, I want notification and linking to be separate. In >>> usage, they want them to be linked. They seem to me to be mutually >>> exclusive. >> >> In my experience, "they" are ok with it being separate, as it conveys >> a number of benefits to the user. (I would consider my source on this >> matter reasonably authoritative.) > > Hmm... perhaps your source could explain his reasoning here? :) It's > extremely easy to make non-circumventable tracking, and I assumed that > most times it _was_ circumventable were due to ignorance rather than an > informed decision. To me, it seems, the benefits to an advertising > company of doing so outweigh the benefits of not. I'd still like to hear this reasoning for this :) (Noticed that this just got implemented in mozilla, which is what brought it to mind). -- dolphinling <http://dolphinling.net/>
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