On 2/19/07, Domas Mituzas midom.lists@gmail.com wrote:
As for image (or any other) hosting - WMF would have completely no power over privacy policy then - unless whole world agreed to turn off Referer [sic] request headers.
Actually, there are plenty of ways to refer people to images without leaking the article title. I'm not sure what the point would be, though. Which pages you're viewing is pretty obvious based on what images you're loading.
For my part, I don't think the WMF *should* have any power over privacy policy. The end users should have that power. If they want to browse anonymously, there are plenty of tools out there to do that. If they just want to stop giving referer information, there are plenty of tools for that too.
Of course, that aside, there're quite some other issues with efficiency, and it is mostly about 'reducing costs' rather than 'improving user experience'.
Reducing costs and improving user experience are fairly synonymous. If you can cut costs, then you can either spend the extra money improving user experience or you can have fewer or less obnoxious fundraising drives.
It would be much easier just to have someone donate few gigabits of IP transit ;-)
Yup.
Anthony