Re: The importance of secrecy (was: EWW improvements: open in new buffer, tags, quickmarks, search engines, ...)

[Joost Kremers]

On Tue, Apr 24 2018, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > There's a privacy issue here, though, so it should be possible 
> > to switch
> > it off.  And perhaps eww should have a porn, I mean anonymous, 
> > mode
>
> BTW, I think using "porn" as a humorous justification for 
> secrecy is
> detrimental since it promotes the view that secrecy is only used 
> for
> objectionable activities, along the lines of "I don't need 
> secrecy
> because I have nothing to hide".

Note that these "anonymous" modes that modern browser implement 
really only serve to hide one's browsing history from family 
members and flat/room/office mates that you share your computer 
with. It has nothing to do with secrecy or anonymity on the 
internet. So porn-mode really isn't that much of a misnomer.

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Joost Kremers
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