Am Tue, 18 May 2010 22:36:56 +0200 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer <cales...@scientia.net>:
> Hi. > > AFAIK, even Chrome has disabled most tracking stuff per default > (except those things which FF/etc. do too). You may be raising a good point. As it is now: the first thing firefox seems to do when it's run, is to connect to search engines and have them set cookies, then, there are "intelligent Bookmarks" that connect to aggregators, while no "cookie safe" (or "cs lite"), "noscript" and "better privacy" are installed and set up properly by default. And the website blocking feature even seems to send URL hashes somewhere by default. The receiver might even not need to compute that hash himself anymore to join that info into their database. I don't know, would that make users look as if they were sold to some company? They certainly seem exposed to any kind of tracking by default. Would it be a responsible and sane decision for any distribution to turn that off, while providing simple buttons to allow things selectively? (i.e. noscript option to enable scripts for particular sites one want's to use, but not for any goo-analytics goo-mail, goo-login, goo-website or flashy goo-toolkit someone was lured to inject into your browser.) I mean what do you think of a distro when you notice it started pushing all interactions with its websites to some goo-analytics tracking? With "so easy to use" social network clients ( i.e. with maybe only freebee fishnet like servers put up centrally, that track any business and social interactions) installed in a distro, at least you can choose not to use them. And you can work on implementing/improving alternative, easy to use free software tools that function in a distributed, peer based manner to help people connect in their real social network in more direct ways. But with browsers and websites set to injecting scripts, you actively need to turn things off. I'm really wondering about what you guys think of this. Kind regards, Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100525204443.14237bcdc.gatzeme...@tu-bs.de@tu-bs.de
