> > I'm not sure, but I thought I heard somewhere that we give logged out > users cookies to ensure that some local caching is invalidated.
This is true. I believe it has to do with Squid and how it uses cookies to determine whether to serve a cached page or not. I'm a little uneasy about this tracking, but I can understand the reasoning behind it. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:50 PM, bawolff <bawolff...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Kevin Israel <pleasest...@live.com> > wrote: > > > > > Even if you do not check "Remember my login on this browser", the > > username is saved for 180 days (which, by the way, is four times the > > duration set out in the WMF privacy policy). As far as I can tell, this > > "feature" has existed at least since the phase3 reorg in 2003, if not > > before then. > > Not really. The cookie expiration was bumped to 180 days back in > August of 2011. Before that we had a shorter expiry. See > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/94430 . Given > that the user has to agree to the remember me function, I do not feel > this is a privacy concern. > > >Ideally, an anonymous user, whether or not they have ever been logged in > as a >registered user, will not transmit any personally identifying > information in their >requests. > > I'm not sure, but I thought I heard somewhere that we give logged out > users cookies to ensure that some local caching is invalidated. > > -bawolff > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
