Are there any legitimate use-cases for, say, saving document drafts before navigating? It seems pretty bad to make that silently fail.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Benjamin Smedberg <[email protected]>wrote: > On 4/16/2014 2:18 PM, Richard Barnes wrote: > >> >> I don't know about "problematic", but ISTM that it might be useless. If >> people disable sendBeacon in an effort to avoid tracking, then the trackers >> can always just test and polyfill with XHR. If you really want "disable >> tracking", you're going to have to do a lot more, and probably break a lot >> of the web. >> > > Oh, I figured the pref flip would leave the sendBeacon API visible, it > just wouldn't *do* anything. That would be a lot more effective than > completely hiding it. > > This is very similar to the discussion about <a ping>. Can we enhance > privacy for the users who care a lot by implementing the ping, getting > sites to stop using redirectors for metrics, and allowing some users to > disable the ping? > > --BDS > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
