On Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:41:57 CEST, Thomas Lübking wrote:
javascript != tracking
you'd need to use some adblocker or ghostery or incorporate this:
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt
into your /etc/hosts - tracking is still often done by blind
"gifs" or other src embeds.
Yes, this is true. Websites and CDNs are free to send you a cookie and look
at e.g. the referrer header to see where you came from to hit their
infrastructure. Or they can do this more subtly by e.g. using custom URLs
for static contents, etc.
I assume that Jan (also) meant to save *his* traffic/bandwidth.
Actually this is not an issue, the VPS the web runs at has plenty of
bandwidth. The "nice thing" is that if some contents like a custom font is
served by a widely-used CDN like the Google's infrastructure, chances are
that the user will have that data already cached and therefore there won't
be any slowdown in loading our web.
The question for that is then:
"if i incorporate github, does that mean to incorporate github
or do i eventually inherit facebook, amazon & google by that as
well?"
The way this linking works today (an iframe or a reference to some
3rd-party CSS etc.), the 3rd party is free to cinlude stuff from other 3rd
parties.
So I was hoping for something like "don't do this or I'll stop working on
Trojita" on one hand or "I couldn't care less" on the other hand :).
Cheers,
Jan
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Trojitá, a fast Qt IMAP e-mail client -- http://trojita.flaska.net/
