I think this is a great idea, websites that praise themselves for being responsible around small children can now action on their words.
The fallacy here is that kids are less technically literate than their parents. I don't think it would be harder for a child to change the boolean value on about:config (following a web tutorial, which is bound to appear the minute this feature becomes popular) than to find a switch on the options. Password protection might be a good step forward! and storing only a hash of the password on the hard-drive. Just two cents from my paranoid self. :) 2014-07-24 0:53 GMT+12:00 Gervase Markham <[email protected]>: > On 23/07/14 10:41, [email protected] wrote: > > Again, while this is an elegant technical solution, I'm not sure it > > adequately addresses the *social* and pedagogical issues at stake > > here. Are we helping train a generation of web users to accept > > whatever restrictions they find in place, without question? Are we > > promoting web literacy? > > > > I'd love to discuss this further. :-) > > I think that there's definitely a case for Firefox to indicate in the UI > that Prefer:Safe is active, even if (as I think is right) there is no UI > for switching it. We should have that discussion. > > Gerv > _______________________________________________ > dev-privacy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-privacy > _______________________________________________ dev-privacy mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-privacy
