- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:12:22 -0400
- To: nathan@webr3.org
- Cc: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, David Booth <david@dbooth.org>, Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>, Ashok Malhotra <ashok.malhotra@oracle.com>
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Nathan <nathan@webr3.org> wrote: > Alan Ruttenberg wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us> wrote: >>> >>> On Sep 23, 2010, at 7:04 AM, David Booth wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 11:46 +0100, Nathan wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Effectively all this means that unless everything is cleared, history, >>>>> caches, local storage, plugins and all for every domain after every >>>>> request then a user can be tracked over time and across different sites >>>>> :( >>>> >>>> IMO it also means that the perpetrators in this company belong in jail, >>>> as their techniques are clearly intended to thwart the user's explicit >>>> attempts for privacy. >>>> >>> Well, yes, but that behavior is not criminal, of course. However, there >>> seems to me to be an opportunity here for some enterprising person to sell >>> cookie-shredding software which attacks these things and eradicates them.You >>> get to use it three times for free and then the licence is a mere $5 a >>> month. >> >> They are called Adblock and NoScript. Also see Ghostery. >> All free. > > are we sure this shouldn't be in the domain of the browser vendors, appears > to me that the data stored and cached by each domain should be sandboxed and > easily removable by users. We (I) am not sure. I would be happier if the browser vendors did this, as naive users might not install these plugins. I was responding solely to Pat's business proposition :) -Alan > > Best, > > Nathan >
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