[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 41801] 'Tracking-Resistant' Browsing

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41801





--- Comment #4 from Robert Hogan <robert at webkit.org>  2010-07-07 15:01:27 PST ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> I'm skeptical that doing these things will provide anything more than window dressing, but I certainly don't want to discourage you from trying.  See also <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fingerprinting>.

Well strictly speaking they are a sort of window-dressing - in that a WebKit client can pretty easily render them useless through one mistake or another. So the option isn't so much KillTrackingDeadWithThis as stuff that WebKit can do to make the life of careful, fingerprint-conscious client implementations easier. 

I'm very conscious that this can't really progress if it is not considered a good idea to introduce of a UniformFingerpint type option to the WebCore API and start adding stuff to it. I'm also aware that a reviewer would be worried about allowing such an option with nothing to put under it yet.

So what do you think would be the best way of moving it along? What would you need to see from me before accepting patches for this option? I was thinking a patch introducing the option and perhaps at least two or three adding functionality that uses it. 

Or are there other issues that need to be thrashed out first?

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