On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 09:47:02AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > I do. For many reasons but lets only mention the most obvious one. My > web browser is not the only app that uses bandwidth. And when I am not > touching it it better fucking not waste my limited bandwidth. Ever.
Which means setting the knob to "off" :-) > Alright, one more. > What about the authorata coming knocking down your door because you > downloaded some illegal garbage and now you have to prove it wasn't you > but your browser instead? > Or a legit site that got compromised and got a link embedded in the HTML > unbeknownst to the site operator? The same happens easily with imgs, iframes or javascript on, as was written here several times. It IS ALREADY HAPPENNING with every browser supporting CSS, iframes or JS. "Webmasters" let other servers implement their own visitor counters this way. Then you wait for an invisible object from the other side of the planet. This (<link> or http header) is just a way of making it explicitly noted and easier to parse/filter. You'd have to completely disable ANY content from other domain than the page the user is browsing. And by that, you'd "break the internet", as lots of sites use different servers for static content for example. If I wanted someone to go to jail, I sure as hell wouldn't insert <link pretech> to a site he or she is visiting. :-) -- Martin Pelikan
