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Re:Against privacy defeatism: why browsers can still stop fi... by yayana on Saturday June 30, 2018 @05:42AM (#17430181)
Your example actually isn't incorrectly marked private.. So that is already covered in my previous comment.

The most anonymity concious would realize they are trying to do banking in what is supposed to be their anonymous session and never fetch the file.. if they somehow missed that they were entering auth details?

The way things need to work on the web involve choices that you apply differently (or IE applies for Windows users.) The defeatist response is not to implement any choices. A typical user will want a small number of PII sites, so let's have only PII mode and autofill their details into forms in any blog!

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Re:Against privacy defeatism: why browsers can still stop fi... by neverfone on Sunday July 01, 2018 @02:11PM (#17436726)
I'm not following your argument, do you agree that there are resources that cannot be saved in a shared cache?
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Re:Against privacy defeatism: why browsers can still stop fi... by yayana on Sunday July 01, 2018 @05:11PM (#17437624)
There are resources that shouldn't be saved in a shared cache and shouldn't be seen in an anonymous session. It is not a coincidence that they are both and it is great that they are explicitly marked.
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