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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] emailprivacytester.com, video/audio tag
From:       Jan_Kundrát <jkt () flaska ! net>
Date:       2013-11-20 15:03:38
Message-ID: f2e9c0f8-d63d-4dac-83f1-dfca9a6b0b07 () flaska ! net
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On Wednesday, 20 November 2013 14:03:15 CEST, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> the test only loads an external reference from the web, nothing 
> else. It doesn't actually test for tracking id or anything like 
> that attached to the url

Hi Sebas, please note that it is impossible to write an algorithm for 
classifying URLs into two sets, one of them with "no tracking" and the 
other with "with tracking ID" which works for all input and is reliable. 
Hence blocking all remote requests sounds reasonable.

> Given that the user has explicitely allowed loading content from the 
> web, this seems OK to me.

I'm not sure how KMail works, but I read the original mail as "enabled 
loading HTML", not "enabled HTML and loading remote content". Perhaps the 
original mail wasn't accurate and the KMail settings are in fact "disable 
any HTML" vs. "enable any HTML, including remote contents". If that is the 
case, then the audio/video preview is indeed a "feature", not a "bug". If, 
however, KMail has a feature for only e.g. showing remote images upon 
explicit confirmation, then it makes sense to treat the audio and video 
tags as something similar, in my opinion.

With kind regards,
Jan

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