On Friday 15 May 2009 19:33:16 Colin Davis wrote:
> We could probe on the main fproxy page, in the same place we have the IE 
> warning, IIRC.
> If they switch it off after that, it's their business; They turned it 
> on, and they can turn it off.
> 
> > I'm assuming that once you have switched "privacy mode" off, websites 
can't 
> > probe links you've visited when it was enabled
> >   
> >   
> This is correct.  Weren't we going to append random characters to avoid 
> this anyway, or was there a reason that I've forgotten why that would fail?
> -CPD

High maintenance cost, likelihood of users posting cloaked URLs accidentally 
on Freenet and then their being probeable and traceable back to a specific 
identity, etc.

Of course even with a separate browser, probing ports is possible. :|

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