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Doctorow: The Curious Case of Internet Privacy (Technology Review)

Doctorow: The Curious Case of Internet Privacy (Technology Review)

Posted Jun 11, 2012 13:14 UTC (Mon) by nye (guest, #51576)
In reply to: Doctorow: The Curious Case of Internet Privacy (Technology Review) by cortana
Parent article: Doctorow: The Curious Case of Internet Privacy (Technology Review)

Hmm, I suppose that means I must have set that myself in the distant past and then had the setting automatically synchronise over.

In that case, I think a strong argument could be made that this setting should be on by default in all browsers. I don't know exactly what the downsides could be, but from my experience I have to conclude that it's not large.


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Doctorow: The Curious Case of Internet Privacy (Technology Review)

Posted Jun 11, 2012 22:28 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

IIRC, the default changed in Chromium 19.

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