On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Daniel Friesen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> - It doesn't scale very well. If you do try to add more vendors and users
> do enable most of them, you still end up loading from each enabled vendor
> slowing things down.
With the exception of the FB Like/Recommend button, everything (even
the FB share link) is just an image paired with a HTML link. Maybe
other sites allow embedding their logos, so the only image which needs
to be loaded externally is the FB one.

> - Frankly the UI is pretty bad.
That's the price you have to pay for total privacy, unfortunately.

> - Once you enable a vendor we drop right back to a 3rd party script being
> injected into the page such that it can do malicious things.
>
> Btw, if you're a 3rd party with a script in a page you can go pretty far
> abusing XHR and history.pushState to make it look to a user like they're
> browsing the website normally when in reality they're on the same page
> with the script still running. Oh, and that includes making it look like
> you're safely visiting the login page when in reality you didn't change
> pages and the script is still running ready to catch passwords.
Do you have any links with further info on this?

Marco

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