Earlier this year, the portal heise.de reported that quite a few social media buttons transmit your data, without you having to click on it. Then, last week, heise.de has published a open-source Plug-In to protect your data from automatically being transmitted.
Because we really care about data privacy, we made the necessary steps to implement the mentioned Plug-In in the Wuala website and our blog. Now you can be sure that your data is protected, unless you agree to transmission by flipping the switch.
The open-source Plug-In from heise.de is available here
Now, If only I would see it in action … and you got rid of Disqus - same thing, data transmitted to third party - and any other form of third party content. You see, whenever data is requested from third party servers, be it images, scripts, stylesheets or any other form of data, then this request can be used by the third party server to track users. It's not limited to social networks or "like buttons", although these are the most visible representation of such "web bugs".
ReplyDeleteI mean, if you are really concerned about your visitors data privacy, then take look at your HTML, locate every reference to third party servers (adsense, google analytics, disqus seemingly more often, to name a few popular cases). They all transmit data to foreign servers, thus allowing the provider of this service to track users over a multitude of websites.
You can see the demo here: http://wuala.com/blog/2011/09/2-clicks-for-your-data-protection.html
ReplyDeleteWe're trying to update also our blogger profile (on which you commented) and will make further improvements regarding data protection in the future.
Great, thanks!
ReplyDeleteSo this basically means wuala is no longer a p2p storage system?
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