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Regarding signed exchanges: "When the browser loads this Signed Exchange, it can safely show your URL in the address bar because the signature in the exchange
by Tepix 8y ago
Regarding signed exchanges:
"When the browser loads this Signed Exchange, it can safely show your URL in the address bar because the signature in the exchange indicates the content originally came from your origin."
- the original website will not see these requests in its logs. Can visitors even tell that their browser is not accessing the server that shows up in the address bar? Their privacy is being violated.
- when the original website deletes or modifies a resource, the old outdated version may still be distributed by a 3rd party
- skybrian 8y agoAnalytics could be done using JavaScript. (Or maybe some other way of triggering a request?) Alternately, depending on your perspective, it could improve privacy, by making it easier to create web apps that don't phone home and disclose your IP address. Perhaps distributed on a DVD? (I don't know if it supports full offline access.) Yes, reading stale content is possible. But this model of distribution is not new, it's how ordinary software distribution works. It's like downloading software from a mirror site, but the signature is automatically checked. Or consider what Cloudflare does and that you need to give them use of your private key to make it work. It's a trade-off.
- JetSpiegel 8y agoThis is just a crappy version of IPFS. NIH syndrome at its worse.