How difficult is it to implement one as a Planet lib that avoids tracking?
On Dec 11, 2010, at 1:41 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > One issue to consider with Recaptcha is that it's incidentally a Web bug that > helps track people around the Internet. If you don't already have Web bugs > in your site, by adding one you increase the cross-site tracking. > > In the case of PLaneT bug reports, the privacy and security cost of a Web bug > seems negligible. > > However, I think it is good to sanity-check every time you use one of these > effective Web bugs. I've seen sites like anonymous discussion boards on > sensitive topics doing things like loading Recaptcha for not only posts > (goodbye, posting anonymity), but also for every message a user views (hello, > centralized detailed profiling). In many cases, I believe that site > operators who help implement the tracking are unaware of it, although in > other cases they might be indifferent or believe that the tracking will be > used only for certain purposes they consider to be good. > > Now that I'm in my 30s, my interest in this is academic curiosity rather than > activist, but I'd like to have at least Racket people aware of the > implications when they decide to use an effective Web bug like Recaptcha. > >> FWIW, recaptcha is really easy to set up. Like less than 10 minutes from >> not knowing anything about it to having a working system. >> >> http://www.google.com/recaptcha >> > > -- > http://www.neilvandyke.org/ > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
