Re:Web Giants Threaten End to Cookie Tracking
by cpeterso on Thursday October 31, 2013 @04:37PM
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Is the only difference between Adblock Edge and Adblock Plus that ABE removes the "acceptable ads" checkbox? The ABE site is unclear because it talks about being a fork.
Re:Web Giants Threaten End to Cookie Tracking
by xarball on Friday November 01, 2013 @03:01AM
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I've been thinking this for a while too! The best comparison would be something akin to "Would you like to allow cnn.com to access XYZ?" that most mobile phones use these days.
It seems that the more locked-down hardware manufacturers may have accidentally stumbled upon a kind of end-user workflow that may actually work for controlling what they want to share with the web!
A lot of the time it's a big pain to get it working right (say, to watch a video on a news site), but that's simply the price I have to pay in today's web to retain at least a bit of privacy and security.
If anyone wants to make a neat extension, it seems like all these extensions could be combined into one with a slightly better user interface. If you want to make it really spiffy, the black/white listing for these could be shared in a distributed hash table with some sort of voting/trust mechanism.