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If Google is using their toolbar and/or Chrome to report private URLs back to Google for indexing, then that's a much more serious privacy violation than what's
by sounddust 16y ago
If Google is using their toolbar and/or Chrome to report private URLs back to Google for indexing, then that's a much more serious privacy violation than what's being reported here.
- eli 16y agoA "private" URL should surely require a login or at least have a robots.txt, no?
- masomenos 16y agoPlenty of sites use URLs like http://example.com/sd8n9g9g http://example.com/sd8n9g9g rather than require logins for private / semi-private material. What's wrong with that?
- nl 16y agoIt's a pretty bad practice. I guess for semi-private material it's okay, but otherwise that's liable to leak. The biggest hole in it is referrers leaking to other sites, but I can think of other methods (eg probing the CSS history exposure bug).
- michaelfairley 16y agoOr a noindex <meta> tag
- count 16y agoWhich is why you aren't allowed to have Google Toolbar or Google Desktop installed on US Govt computers.