Thus spake Mike Perry (mikeperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx): > Thus spake Joe Btfsplk (joebtfsplk@xxxxxxx): > > > A few months ago, someone raised the question of TBB or any included > > addon not blocking web beacons / trackers and perhaps something like > > Ghostery should be included in TBB (I think). I asked about beacons > > (web bugs) compromising anonymity (not to mention privacy). Can't > > find the post, but I believe either Mike or Roger replied that it > > shouldn't be an issue because web beacons, like Google Analytics, > > can't track from site to site. Hope I've got the essence of the > > reply correct. > > Yes, that is correct. We consider the ability to link user activity > across different url bar domains a violation of our design requirements > (https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#privacy), and > any ability to do so is a major bug. > > Unfortunately, there are a couple such bugs we're already currently > aware of: > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?keywords=~tbb-linkability > > We'll fix them, eventually. Help is always appreciated, though. Oh, I should also mention https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#identifier-linkability as the laundry list of linkability mechanisms we've already at least partially fixed. -- Mike Perry
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