From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The importance of secrecy (was: EWW improvements: open in new buffer, tags, quickmarks, search engines, ...)
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 22:16:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87po2omkbx.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1sf4cx5u.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org>
On Tue, Apr 24 2018, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> There's a privacy issue here, though, so it should be possible
>> to switch
>> it off. And perhaps eww should have a porn, I mean anonymous,
>> mode
>
> BTW, I think using "porn" as a humorous justification for
> secrecy is
> detrimental since it promotes the view that secrecy is only used
> for
> objectionable activities, along the lines of "I don't need
> secrecy
> because I have nothing to hide".
Note that these "anonymous" modes that modern browser implement
really only serve to hide one's browsing history from family
members and flat/room/office mates that you share your computer
with. It has nothing to do with secrecy or anonymity on the
internet. So porn-mode really isn't that much of a misnomer.
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-24 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-16 10:26 EWW improvements: open in new buffer, tags, quickmarks, search engines, Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-16 10:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-16 11:18 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-16 12:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-16 12:22 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-16 12:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-16 12:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-16 17:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-17 11:18 ` Charles A. Roelli
2018-04-17 19:18 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-24 5:56 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-24 14:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-24 17:57 ` The importance of secrecy (was: EWW improvements: open in new buffer, tags, quickmarks, search engines, ...) Stefan Monnier
2018-04-24 19:45 ` The importance of secrecy John Wiegley
2018-04-24 20:16 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2018-04-24 20:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-24 22:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-24 22:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-24 15:58 ` EWW improvements: open in new buffer, tags, quickmarks, search engines, T.V Raman
2018-04-25 6:48 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-25 15:25 ` T.V Raman
2018-04-25 16:25 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-25 23:36 ` T.V Raman
2018-04-26 12:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-24 16:24 ` Drew Adams
2018-04-25 7:00 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-25 12:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-25 15:29 ` Drew Adams
2018-05-03 6:52 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-03 6:54 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-03 15:12 ` Drew Adams
2018-04-24 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-25 6:32 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-25 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-25 16:13 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-25 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-17 19:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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