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Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality



On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:

>    If not, then what about all the tracking pages that Firefox is going
>    to load because they're referenced in the page you asked for?
>    Shouldn't you be much more worried about those?

Allowing third-party requests was one of the biggest mistakes made in
the design of web browsers. It is basically impossible to put that cat
back into the bag at this point though. Most people concerned about
this issue are using the RequestPolicy plugin along with various other
plugins. Unfortunately this breaks much of the web.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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