- From: Nathan <nathan@webr3.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:05:57 +0100
- To: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- 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>
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. Best, Nathan
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