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by horsawlarway 1838 days ago
Why don't you search a bit and come back with a link?

Because I can't comment on an RFC I haven't seen, and a quick google search of my own based on your comment turns up nada.

That said - I'm fully aware of the downsides of this approach, but I want my browser to be (to put it crudely) MY FUCKING USER AGENT. I want to be able to allow sharing by default in most cases, and I want a little dropdown menu that shows me the domains a site has listed as friendly/same-entity, and I want a checkbox I can uncheck for each of them.

Then I want an extension API to allow someone else to do the unchecking for me, based on whether the domain is highly correlated with tracking (Google analytics, Segment, Heap, Braze, etc)

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The way I see it, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. If the web was developed in our current climate of security/privacy focus, how likely is it that even a fucking <a href=[3rd party]> would be allowed? Because I see us driving to a spot where this verboten. Which also happens to be the final nail in the coffin for any sort of real open platform.

Welcome to the world where the web is literally subdomains of facebook/google. What a fucking trash place to be.