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Make it harder for google to fingerprint visitors #857

Closed maflcko closed 2 years ago

maflcko commented 2 years ago

Don't send the visitor IP to google without asking. Also, don't allow google to set cookies, execute javascript etc without asking the visitor for consent. Also, fixes #850

TheBlueMatt commented 2 years ago

Should we just host the video ourselves?

maflcko commented 2 years ago

I am not sure if that is worth it, considering how many visitors are reading the archived posts from years ago. So I am not going to spend time on that myself. Maybe best done in a follow-up by someone else?

laanwj commented 2 years ago

Untested concept and review ACK 2ed32596b29716ae75d441f5592bd8858996a296

Should we just host the video ourselves?

But where? And how? At the least we don't want to have a huge file like that in the repository.

maflcko commented 2 years ago

With apple refusing to support webm and some Linux distros refusing proprietary codecs, it is still non-trivial to ship a video. (Not to mention that downscaled version would need to be provided for low-CPU devices).

Hosting and transcoding could be done by Wikimedia Commons (given a CC-license). They were even working on a in-browser video player, but I haven't checked the status of it recently.

Anyway, best something to be done in a follow-up, if at all.

laanwj commented 2 years ago

Yes, agree, merged to remove another unnecessary source of legal uncertainty.

With apple refusing to support webm and some Linux distros refusing proprietary codecs, it is still non-trivial to ship a video. (Not to mention that downscaled version would need to be provided for low-CPU devices).

Especially if further transcoding is involved, it would make sense to hunt after the original video file (from the author) instead of downloading it from youtube.