On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 4:58:02 PM UTC-4, Afowler wrote: > Today, we posted the following announcement about a new feature in Firefox > called Prefer:Safe to the Mozilla Privacy Blog: > > > > See > https://blog.mozilla.org/privacy/2014/07/22/prefersafe-making-online-safety-simpler-in-firefox/ > > > > There's a draft spec being discussed this week at the IETF, as well, which > you can read here: > > > > See http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-safe-hint-02 > > > > Here's the text to the announcement: > > > > Prefer:Safe -- Making Online Safety Simpler in Firefox > > > > Mozilla believes users have the right to shape the Internet and their own > experiences on it. However, there are instances when people seek to shape not > only their own experiences, but also those of young users and family members > whose needs related to trust and safety may differ. To do this, users must > navigate multiple settings, enable parental controls, tweak browsers and > modify defaults on services like search engines. > > > > We're pleased to announce a smart feature in Firefox for just this type of > user called Prefer:Safe, designed to simplify and strengthen the online trust > and safety model. Developed in collaboration with a number of leading > technologists and companies, this feature connects parental controls enabled > on Mac OS and Windows with the sites they visit online via their browser. > > > > How it works: > > > > * Users on Mac OS and Windows enable Parental Controls. > > * Firefox sees that the user's operating system is running in Parental > Control mode and sends a HTTP header -- "Prefer:Safe" -- to every site and > service the user visits online. > > * A site or service looking for the HTTP header automatically supports higher > safety controls it makes available, including honoring content or > functionality restrictions. > > * Users won't find any UI in Firefox to enable or disable Prefer:Safe, which > becomes one less thing for kids to try to circumvent to disable this control. > > > > Prefer:Safe demonstrates the power and elegance of HTTP headers for > empowering users to communicate preferences to websites and online services. > This is one reason we've been championing Do Not Track, which is a HTTP > header-based privacy signal for addressing third-party tracking under > development at the W3C. In this case, no other configurations are necessary > at either the browser or search engine level for this user preference to be > effective across the Web, which helps ensure the intended online experiences > meet user expectations. > > > > We're pleased that Internet Explorer has implemented this feature for their > users, which along with Firefox, makes this capability relevant at scale > right out of the box. We hope to see broader adoption of this feature in the > near future. > > > > For more information about Prefer:Safe, a draft specification has been > submitted to the IETF > (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-safe-hint).
This setting is incredibly annoying. It blocks things that aren't remotely "inappropriate" that my parents do not mind me watching. How can I turn this off? It doesn't even block anything inappropriate! Is it just stuck permanently on here, and can't be disabled? _______________________________________________ dev-privacy mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-privacy
