Thank you Dan, I think that's a good suggestion. We're currently working on updating our anti-tracking policy ( https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Anti_tracking_policy) to cover this specific protection and outline which identifiers qualify for blocklisting. >From there, I think it's a good idea to maintain a publicly visible list of stripped identifiers, though I doubt that any non-expert users can utilize it to fix breakage (Brave's list is also simply embedded in its source code).
Johann On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 11:39 PM Daniel Veditz <[email protected]> wrote: > This is great for privacy! > > I love the way Brave has clearly documented which items they block, and > even link to issues so people can try to understand the reasons. That's a > bit harder to do with a single-line pref string, and nearly impossible to > make visible if it's remote-settings unless we have an explicit > documentation page. The more tracking parameters we end up blocking (Brave > currently has two dozen) the more likely this could lead to mysterious > failures because unrelated sites just happened to use the same abbreviation > for something else. > > A contrived example, but imagine someone has a fantasy soccer league site. > Players could be very frustrated if they're unable to link to their profile > because we keep stripping the *F*oot*B*all *CL*ub *ID* param. A bit of > documentation could help sites avoid using those IDs. > > -Dan Veditz > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " > [email protected]" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-platform/CADYDTCB8gh7GjVpx9pMLD5pqpDjc%3DgeqkyRJzvcK2KZpwNFSgg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-platform/CADYDTCB8gh7GjVpx9pMLD5pqpDjc%3DgeqkyRJzvcK2KZpwNFSgg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-platform/CAPk0kuW6vNK4kmpJnu90RFhU1GA46piz5R8Lx570SVwBd16eXw%40mail.gmail.com.
