[sf-lug] An unpleasant experience

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Sujit K M (kmsujit at gmail.com):

> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> > Quoting Sujit K M (kmsujit at gmail.com):
> >
> >> Works or Not. I was quite unaware of this feature till today. How
> >> do Frontend developers know about this feature?
> >
> > Feel free to tell _me_.  You linked to a claim about a developer
> > preview from about a year ago.
> 
> Developer Preview seems to be long way to go. If you look at
> DoNotTrackMe add for firefox etc. It has been there since 2011. Below
> link.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoNotTrackMe.

I'm afraid I don't understand.  The August 2015 article whose link you
sent says:

  'A brand new Developer version of Firefox has been released, and it
  includes our first real look at Mozilla’s enhanced tracking protection
  features. So far, it looks like a major change from the woefully
  ineffective Do Not Track. [...]  In Mozilla’s defense, this is only a
  rough draft. It’s only live in the Developer and Aurora builds of
  Firefox, and it’s currently meant as an enhancement for the browser’s
  private browsing mode.'

So, the allegedly better-than-woefully-ineffective Do Not Track browser
you believe to be of interest, from a year ago, was not a release
version.  As I said.

Moreover, the link you now provide to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoNotTrackMe has nothing to do with the
Mozilla Developer and Aurora builds from August 2015.  That Wikipedia
article concerns (yet another) proprietary Firefox & other browser
extension from Abine.

You seem to have confused two different things.

Moreover, anything that builds on Firefox's 'private browsing mode'
doesn't sound all that promising to me, as that mode is extremely
RAM-costly (lacking a Web cache) and prevents keeping of browser
history, hence is impractical for general use.



> I guess both of us are devils. If you cannot provide input to others
> questions you should
> not reply.

To the contrary; I considered your question unenlightening (because of
questionable assumptions), and answered it in exactly the way I thought
most informative to the general readership of this mailing list.  It's
too bad if you _specifically_ don't like what I said, but I'm not your
employee, so I follow my own agenda, not yours.


> > But _you_ could certainly do that homework.  Please let us know what
> > you find.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoNotTrackMe

Not interested in Abine's proprietary extensions, thanks.  But have fun
with that.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track

Not interested in the ridiculous Do Not Track (DNT) header HTTP header,
either.  As I said, it's like a sign saying 'please don't litter' in a
place where people feel an incentive to litter.

By the way, my notes about browser extensions are here:
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/kicking.html#linuxbrowser