Re: Privacy warning: According to Panopticlick 3.0 Akregator does not block trackers effectively

James Cain <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.users.pim
Message-ID <CA+6ejqBa+M5NUyewtWmUaDjS7Kh3BTjNBvqnWnCrV59XU02Dpw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Martin Steigerwald <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi James.
>
> You only replied to me personally. Was this your intention?
>
>
​It was not - sorry about that. Upon sending I also fired up akregator and
realized you will get a preview HTML instance anyway. Maybe the default
function of akregator (and konqueror as well?) would be to offer-up text
only summaries or views anyway? A new button could be added somewhere on
the respective GUIs to see the article in full, as intended by the
respective site(s).

In this day and age, expecting a file manager or RSS reader to also be a
full-fledged web browser is a bit ambitious anyway, unlike 10 years ago
when the web was mainly basic HTML. Not to mention the prolific use of
things like ad-blockers, no-script scripts, and password managers. By
stripping and showing only the text, or text of the 1st paragraph, say, we
could solve the problem in a way that likely is intuitive and
understandable to users.

> This would probably be best added as a suggestion to my upstream bug
report.

Noted - I will take a look at the bug reports. My guess is, however, that
it might be best to make a new bug report recommending some type of change
for the sake of User's privacy and security, citing your bug reports as a
reason, as well as perhaps just being a better long-term solution to this
and future problems. Comments welcome if I am totally off-base here.

Thanks and take care.

- James
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.