- From: Jon Hanna <jon@hackcraft.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:55:01 +0000
- To: "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> I have been looking all over the net for information about the subject, > and I have found an interesting aspect: privacy. If you specify a list > of your preferred languages in the browser, this more or less sensitive > information is send to all web sites you visit. Let us say you specify > Russian, Hebrew and French. Together with other characteristics of your > browser, such information is enough to clearly identify you. You can be > traced, not as an anonymous surfer but as a very unique user profile all > over the Internet. You have a point here, however it tells people little more than clicking on a language choice link does and it tells people considerably less than they can generally find elsewhere. Besides this is a reason why you might not send language information and rely on a servers fallback, not a reason why a server shouldn't respond to a request that clearly states it prefers French with an English page with a "Version Français" link - the web's equivalent to IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ENGLISH I'LL TRY SPEAKING LOUDER. -- Jon Hanna <http://www.hackcraft.net/> "…it has been truly said that hackers have even more words for equipment failures than Yiddish has for obnoxious people." - jargon.txt
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