On Friday 2014-05-16 13:35 +0100, Jonathan Kew wrote: > Maybe that's OK, but I do think this changes things in a significant > way, and we should give some priority to addressing the concerns. > Maybe the send-ping preference should be exposed at a similar level > to Do Not Track?
There's a tradeoff there, though. If enough users opt out of the preference for sites to care, then sites will just use other ways to track users that aren't controlled by the preference. (And sites could certainly use other ways that don't show up in the "Loading..." message in the status bar as well; some of these would probably also be faster than redirects.) We need to be careful to design the preferences we expose to the user in ways that make sense even if sites don't want to honor those preferences. It's not clear to me that it makes sense to have a preference to disable one particular tracking feature when sites can do that sort of tracking in many other ways that aren't controlled by the preference. -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)
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