[Foundation-l] A possible solution for the image filter

[Andrew Gray]

On 22 September 2011 14:46, WereSpielChequers
<werespielchequers at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm uncomfortable about a session cookie based system for IP readers, many
> of our readers are in Internet Cafes and I'm not sure if PCs in those sorts
> of environments get rebooted and the session cookies wiped between
> customers.

It varies depending on the specific location - some effectively reboot
and wipe the profile between users, some merely kick one user out of
the seat and put a new one in without even closing the browser tabs.
Same with domestic one-computer-per-household situations!

On the other hand, the proposed implementation is relatively
transparently reversible - concealed images are shown as a placeholder
with a trivial "click to display again" option - and this sort of
"legacy filtering" should be fairly easy for a user to switch back on
or off. It's not perfect, but it's probably no *less* clunky than
requiring people to sign in (and the associated
forgetting-to-sign-out...)

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk