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Your tone is definitely one pushing it as a new and ominous discovery. Another criticism "It has already being used by numerous websites but few people know of
by leokun 13y ago
Your tone is definitely one pushing it as a new and ominous discovery.
Another criticism "It has already being used by numerous websites but few people know of it" without any more information. If you know of which websites, you should state so, if you don't, you should at least say why you know "numerous websites" use it. Also the "few people know of it" bit, a bit presumptive if you were referring to the engineering community, and flatout meaningless if you were referring to everyday people, of which many don't even know what a browser is.
I did like the working example, but maybe tone down the hyperbole and more informative claims when the claims are also accusations.
- lucb1e 13y agoThank you for the constructive criticism, that's often rare these days. > Your tone is definitely one pushing it as a new and ominous discovery. I'm sorry if the tone gave a wrong impression, that wasn't my intention (English isn't my native language). It was quite a discovery to me though, perhaps that's why I made it sound like that without really meaning to. > Another criticism "It has already being used by numerous websites but few people know of it" without any more information Oh that's right! I had a source link elsewhere but forgot to move it when rearranging text. I'll add this again now. > Also the "few people know of it" bit, a bit presumptive if you were referring to the engineering community This was mostly my personal experience. I don't know anybody knowing about these etags being used for tracking, while I know that many friends and classmates could give me details on how cookies work or how localstorage works. Edit: Why are people downvoting the person I replied to?
- biot 13y agoUsing ETags was well known on HN years ago as one technique in the "Evercookie" arsenal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1714446 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1714446
- skrebbel 13y ago> Edit: Why are people downvoting the person I replied to? Two options: * Someone's grumpy and/or a jerk and/or an idiot * Someone's reading HN on a touch device, wanted to upvote, touched the wrong icon.
- pqdbr 13y agoIn this case, I think we can agree he was both grumpy and a jerk ?