- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:03:58 +0900
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- CC: "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>
On 2014/12/09 13:09, Mark Nottingham wrote: > >> On 9 Dec 2014, at 11:57 am, Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com> wrote: >> >> II. Privacy >> >> I also have the vague impression that there is a loss of privacy that indirectly results from the reduced practicality of proxies, but I'm not sure that intuition is correct. If there are privacy issues with the HTTPs transition, that would be worth exploring too. > > Is the thought here that it's harder to view what's happening on the wire between your browser and the server, and thus harder to verify that a site isn't abusing your private data, etc.? That's one aspect. Another is that if many of the requests don't go to the origin, the origin and the network at large knows less about browsing habits. That's a plus if the users can trust their local network (up to the proxy) more than the origin and the worldwide network. On the other hand, these days most pages come with all kinds of beacons and stuff embedded anyway, and in that case, page access leaks beyond the proxy anyway. Regards, Martin.
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