- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:01:35 -0400
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>, nathan@webr3.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 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. -Alan > > Pat > >> -- >> David Booth, Ph.D. >> Cleveland Clinic (contractor) >> http://dbooth.org/ >> >> Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily >> reflect those of Cleveland Clinic. >> >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 > 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office > Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax > FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile > phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes > > > > > > >
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