Re: Helping ensure privacy + security

On Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 9:39:42 PM UTC-8, Chris Peterson wrote:
> I still feel that hiding the plugin names is untenable because you can't 
> fix all the websites and the plugin names are still visible to trackers 
> that query them using a list of known plugin names. In contrast, 
> disabling plugins by default and selectively allow plugins on the 
> websites you care about is more private and doesn't break websites.

Totally! It sounds like we agree that disabling plugins is a safer solution. We just disagree in our value assessments of disabling plugin enumeration and whether users should be empowered to make that choice.