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It's not a bad thing for these to get posted. If anything, it highlights how technically illiterate the powers that be really are. It's all too easy to assume
by mdtusz 6y ago
It's not a bad thing for these to get posted. If anything, it highlights how technically illiterate the powers that be really are.
It's all too easy to assume that everyone knows what http requests are and how a browser works when working in the tech industry, but the _vast_ majority of the population has no idea whatsoever how the (modern) technology they use and depend on works, on even basic levels.
Most people understand that when you phone someone, it has to go through a telecoms company. For some reason, the internet doesn't have that same understanding and people are still stuck with this idea that browsing to a website is still just a two-party transaction between them and the website they visit.
- gowld 6y agoHow can you be "illiterate" if you don't have access to Google's source code to see what they do? How is 3rd-party analytics essential and obvious to the functioning of a website?
- recursive 6y ago> How can you be "illiterate" if you don't have access to Google's source code to see what they do? By not knowing that sites work based on requests and responses. And that site operators can see the contents of the requests, otherwise they wouldn't be able to respond. > How is 3rd-party analytics essential and obvious to the functioning of a website? Whether it's essential or not isn't related to incognito mode. If that were a problem, I'd think it would be a problem all the time, not just for incognito.