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Re:Chromium: Secretly stores referer and url for downloaded ... by shereadsthenews on Thursday March 14, 2019 @12:06PM (#19390520)
My beef is with the adverb "secretly".
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Re:Chromium: Secretly stores referer and url for downloaded ... by darkpuma on Thursday March 14, 2019 @12:25PM (#19390743)
I don't have an issue with this feature, but to play devil's advocate: it obviously isn't being adequately advertised if it's surprising to so many people on HN. And if many among the audience of HN find it surprising, you can be certain it's even more-so to the general public.
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Re:Chromium: Secretly stores referer and url for downloaded ... by stupidlogin on Thursday March 14, 2019 @03:30PM (#19392682)
Since the behavior is unexpected and very non-obvious for the average user, I don't see any issue with calling it "secretly".
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Re:Chromium: Secretly stores referer and url for downloaded ... by shereadsthenews on Thursday March 14, 2019 @05:34PM (#19394019)
You confused secrecy with ignorance.
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