On 2/19/07, Domas Mituzas <midom.lists(a)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