That's the same site that paid £585 for their favicon http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2175321
I think that says it all. Clueless.
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#12Earlier 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...
If anyone else is bugged by the lack of control on your referrer headers, star this http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=84177
For the address bar, i had no luck finding a bug. anyone?
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#13I'm so not looking forward to seeing jsessionid in my urls again.
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#14unfortunately, 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…
There's no reason to have a URL bar on the top of the screen all the time, just to enter a url manually.
A "Enter URL" menu item would Work just fine.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
If anyone else is bugged by the lack of control on your referrer headers, star this http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=84177 For the address bar, i had no luck finding a bug. anyone?
FWIW, on Firefox I use the refcontrol addon, and I've not experienced any problems yet. If the referer domain is different to the domain of the request, it modifies the referer to be the root of the site being requested.
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#16If you block cookies on that website you don't see the message.
If you don't click 'accept cookies' or 'continue' but simply browse the site, you've apparently accepted some cookies.
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#17This is exactly why we are currently cutting back on bloated Government departments in the UK. I can see this being repealed in 12 months, it's a ridiculous, unenforceable law.
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#18"unless the cookie is strictly necessary to provide a service requested by the user"
Isn't this open to some interpretation? Seems like a pretty wide loop hole. Seems that this will allow a site to set/read it's own cookies no problem. Third-party ad-networks and trackers though, yeah, they would not fall within this definition I think. And isn't that a good thing?
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#19In their privacy policy they list the cookie that 'Is essential for their site to function'
"Essential site cookie|ASP.NET_SessionId|This cookie is essential for the online notification form to operate and is set upon your arrival to the ICO site. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser."
They also say that they've left it there because: "as we’re unable to remove it from one part of the site without affecting another"
So apparently incompetence is an excuse for leaving cookies in place. Problem solved!
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
There's no reason to have a URL bar on the top of the screen all the time, just to enter a url manually. A "Enter URL" menu item would Work just fine.
I think the pentadactyl[1]/vimperator[2] ui is nice; I can see the URL of the page I'm currently browsing, but it claims minimal screen real-estate.
[1]: http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/ [2]: http://vimperator.org/vimperator