As it looks like we will most likely be using CentralNotice for the
blackout (for a variety of reasons - easy scheduling, geotargeting,
caching, doesn't interfere with site indexing by Google, etc.), you will
likely be able to bypass the blackout simply by turning off Javascript.
There has been discussion of taking more extreme measures, but I'm not
sure how likely any of them are to be implemented. It's also likely that
the mobile site will not be blacked-out since they are launching a new
interface right around that time, but you'd have to ask Tomasz about that.
On the issue of cookies, that is actually a tricky detail to implement.
Right now, if you have the cookie set to hide CentralNotice banners, it
will not show you the blackout (or any other banners). I was thinking we
could work around this by adding some JS to Common.js on the 18th that
resets that cookie for everyone. The cache on Common.js is only 5
minutes client-side, but how long is the cache on the server-side? Does
that sound like a good solution?
Ryan Kaldari
On 1/15/12 7:23 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
On 16/01/12 13:30, Krinkle wrote:
The default behavior taken with central notices
is a close button
which will set a cookie. Once the cookie is set, the banner
is no longer shown.
The "soft blackout" option on WP:SOPA has only 74
support votes (30
oppose), compared to 519 support votes (77 oppose) for a "full
blackout", i.e. without a close button.
-- Tim Starling
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