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Post by gcb »

unfortunately, that's not the regular clueless legislator.

That's an example of the shift of power happening in the web.

Remember when you started using firefox because of all the options and "about:config"?

Now, remember how you ditched it for Chrome, but have to start firefox to be able to use crazedlist.org because to disable cross-site referrer on chrome you have to recompile it? (they even removed the command line option!)

In a few chrome versions (what happens every 15min), I doubt you will be able to disable cookies.

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Post by patrickaljord »

gcb wrote: post #2

unfortunately, that's not the regular clueless legislator. That's an example of the shift of power happening in the web. Remember when you started using firefox because of all the options and "about:config"? Now, remember how you ditched it for Chrome, but have to start firefox to be able to use crazedlist.org because to disable cross-site referrer on chrome you have to recompile it? (they even removed the command li…

Never heard of crazedlist.org but you can use extensions for cross site referring http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/xhr.html

Re: ICO.gov (click on continue without agreeing to cookies)

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Post by gcb »

gcb wrote: post #2

unfortunately, that's not the regular clueless legislator. That's an example of the shift of power happening in the web. Remember when you started using firefox because of all the options and "about:config"? Now, remember how you ditched it for Chrome, but have to start firefox to be able to use crazedlist.org because to disable cross-site referrer on chrome you have to recompile it? (they even removed the command li…

Also, remember the old firefox moto? "Take back the web"?

it's just changed to "Made to make the Web a better place."... can it get more Orwelian? :D

Give me back my browser control. and stop hiding my url bar, dammit! ...they start removing the protocol, nobody bothers. ha http, who cares? Then move a little to the side, 'to align with the tab'. Then will make it autohide. And before you notice the only way to go to a page is to use AOL^H^H^H GOOGLE KEYWORDS.

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Post by gcb »

patrickaljord wrote: post #3
gcb wrote: post #2

unfortunately, that's not the regular clueless legislator. That's an example of the shift of power happening in the web. Remember when you started using firefox because of all the options and "about:config"? Now, remember how you ditched it for Chrome, but have to start firefox to be able to use crazedlist.org because to disable cross-site referrer on chrome you have to recompile it? (they even removed the command li…

Never heard of crazedlist.org but you can use extensions for cross site referring http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/xhr.html

Don't think we are talking about the same thing.

I'm talking about the referrer headers.

It used to have an option. Then they moved it to a command line[1]. now they removed it completely!

Disabling referrer header kills some google features in adwords and analytics. So they have more than enough reason to kill it first.

[1] http://darklaunch.com/2011/05/07/chrome-disable-referer-head...

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Post by bruce511 »

Unfortunately this is another case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and incidentally not really solving the problem.

Firstly there are various kinds of cookies. There are ones that are stored on your hard-disk, and others which exist only in memory (for the life of the browser instance.)

There are ones used for marketing and tracking purposes, and others (notably session cookies) that allow the server to track the "state" - thus allowing for "web apps" as much as web-pages.

So their idea is to just "ban cookies". Or, as they have done, get all sites to have a "allow cookies" switch. Don't turn that on? well then you can't use any part of the site. And if you do turn it on, it's "all or nothing" - I can't allow say _just_ the session cookie, while banning the tracking cookies?

As to the possibility of enforcing this? Let's not even go there...

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Post by patrickaljord »

gcb wrote: post #5
patrickaljord wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never heard of crazedlist.org but you can use extensions for cross site referring http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/xhr.html

Don't think we are talking about the same thing. I'm talking about the referrer headers. It used to have an option. Then they moved it to a command line[1]. now they removed it completely! Disabling referrer header kills some google features in adwords and analytics. So they have more than enough reason to kill it first. [1] http://darklaunch.com/2011/05/07/chrome-disable-referer-head...

Ok, thanks for the info.
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