- From: Daniel Appelquist <appelquist@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 17:34:51 +0000
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> On 2 Feb 2015, at 16:51, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Daniel Appelquist <appelquist@gmail.com> wrote: >> https://github.com/w3ctag/wiki/wiki/HTTPS-and-Advertising > > Noah was talking about the legitimacy of e.g. Comcast or Verizon > inserting advertisements and/or tracking identifiers into non-TLS > traffic. Not about the difficulty of getting ad networks to support > TLS. > > (I personally think that irrespective of whether it is legitimate, > it's another good reason to move to TLS. Technically impossible beats > theoretically forbidden.) > Right. I’m with you. To be clear: I wasn’t talking about tracking identifiers inserted into http headers, which I view as an abomination. I had actually been meaning to start the other conversation - the conversation about third party content in the ad space (which seems larger and more important for the web generally) - anyway, so I’m afraid I hijacked your email, Noah, to do so. My comments still stand - https and advertising seem like conflicting requirements to many and I want to bottom that out. Dan
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