- From: Alexey Feldgendler <alexey@feldgendler.ru>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:27:22 +0600
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:04:52 +0600, Daniel Veditz <dveditz at cruzio.com> wrote: >> - If people don't want this feature, you'll have to provide a switch to >> turn it off. >> >> - If it can be switched off, websites will use the old, hidden ways to >> track users. > Can't you say the same about cookies? Many people are up in arms about > "tracking" and browsers do provide blocking tools, yet the vast majority > of people leave them on and very few sites bother to use the old way of > tracking state by passing it as URL query parameters. That's because on most sites you're unable to log in with cookies disabled. On the other hand, a user who has disabled ping="" doesn't lose anything. -- Opera M2 8.5 on Debian Linux 2.6.12-1-k7 * Origin: X-Man's Station [ICQ: 115226275] <alexey at feldgendler.ru>
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