OK, so it's not exactly news. But we only have these 'privacy implications' because our browsers give mines of information to any website that cares to ask for

OK, so it's not exactly news. But we only have these 'privacy implications' because our browsers give mines of information to any website that cares to ask for it. GET requests used to be seen as OK to make on behalf of a user, but these days I feel that the hostname in my location bar should be the only one I send any HTTP requests to, for a given page.