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

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





--- Comment #9 from Robert Hogan <robert at webkit.org>  2010-07-14 13:09:52 PST ---
Going back to an assumption I stated in the original bug report here, 'Private Browsing' actually doesn't have a formal definition in WebKit - at least not in the code. It seems to me that the narrowest available definition that is common to all WebKit-based implementations of private browsing is to ensure that a private browsing session leaves no traces of the acitivity from that session on disk or in memory. 

There is more to private browsing from a client implementation point of view, such as ensuring state from a private browsing is not available from a normal session. But that's very much outside WebKit's remit.

Given that a lot of the discussion about private browsing in research papers pays attention to the fact that remote intrusions on privacy are possible in private browsing mode I think there may be some merit in defining the scope of Settings::PrivateBrowsing explicitly so that any measures WebKit can take to protect against remote stuff can be addressed under a separate option.

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