On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/6/12 8:28 PM, Eric H. Jung wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Patrick McManus<[email protected]>** >> wrote: >> >> I'll note that when I just tried to prefetch the dns from our awesomebar >>> I got privacy pushback. >>> >>> >> Don't let them spoil Firefox for the rest of us. If such people are >> concerned about DNS prefetches compromising their privacy >> > > They're worried about DNS prefetches compromising the privacy of > nontechnical users who have no idea what the heck a proxy server is and > would run screaming from mentions of DNS and SOCKS... but who may still > care about their privacy. > > I understand. But there are other, older decisions that trade privacy for improved user experience. I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but I do think privacy advocates are a special-interest group that can be satisfied through addons/extensions, rather than default behavior that sacrifices improved user experience for the masses. There are a host of actively-developed addons that, if provided the right hooks, could disable DNS prefetch. Eric _______________________________________________ dev-tech-network mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-network
