the wild web

[ thoughts on web privacy and security ]

Monday, March 12, 2012

making DNT easier for web sites

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Jos Boumans has done some analysis about the effect of turning on Do Not Track in your browser, and his findings show that sites in genera...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

Malware and Phishing Protection in Firefox

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For a while, Firefox has included malware and phishing protection to keep our users safe on the web.  Recently, Gian-Carlo Pascutto made s...
Monday, December 19, 2011

seat belts and airbags

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As much as I like giving users choice and control, bombarding people with too many options makes using software painful.  This is why it i...
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Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Firefox won't activate DNT by default

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Firefox isn't gonna turn on DNT by default because then DNT won't work. "As Do Not Track picks up steam and standardization ...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Measuring Progress

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In the reasonably short time that I've been involved with Mozilla, we've made amazing changes to the web and our Firefox browser. W...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

Careful... pixel-data access is pointy

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Robert O'Callahan writes: Some Web applications require the pixel data of Web pages to be exposed to Web applications [...] There are ...
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Thursday, September 08, 2011

mozilla privacy blog

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Hey, good news! Mozilla has a privacy blog where we will be blogging about all sorts of privacy stuff. I'll continue to write about i...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

on unifying site behavior and consent

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Lets face it, the users of your ShinyNewWebSite(beta) will never know exactly how it works. Perhaps that's by design (look, it's ma...
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