Are there any legitimate use-cases for, say, saving document drafts before
navigating? It seems pretty bad to make that silently fail.


On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Benjamin Smedberg
<benja...@smedbergs.us>wrote:

> On 4/16/2014 2:18 PM, Richard Barnes wrote:
>
>>
>> I don't know about "problematic", but ISTM that it might be useless.  If
>> people disable sendBeacon in an effort to avoid tracking, then the trackers
>> can always just test and polyfill with XHR.  If you really want "disable
>> tracking", you're going to have to do a lot more, and probably break a lot
>> of the web.
>>
>
> Oh, I figured the pref flip would leave the sendBeacon API visible, it
> just wouldn't *do* anything. That would be a lot more effective than
> completely hiding it.
>
> This is very similar to the discussion about <a ping>. Can we enhance
> privacy for the users who care a lot by implementing the ping, getting
> sites to stop using redirectors for metrics, and allowing some users to
> disable the ping?
>
> --BDS
>
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