Policy talk:Privacy policy

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Latest comment: 11 years ago by Dschwen in topic Use of CDN sites for script delivery

Policy talk:Privacy policy/Header User:MiszaBot/config

Cookies

See also [wikitech-l] Anonymous user id on Wikipedia?\ay deny this cookie; it will be deleted at the end of the browser's session. More cookies may be set when one logs in to maintain logged-in status. If one saves a user name or password in one's browser, that information will be saved for up to 30 days, and this information will be resent to the server on every visit to the same Project. Contributors using a public machine who do not wish to show their username to future users of the machine should clear these cookies after use.}}sacmlop ciop

This is confusing. There are two different things could be meant by this paragraph

  1. If you save your name and password in your browser it is saved until it is deleted
  2. When you log in you have a check box which will save your login for "up to 180 days"

30 days doesn't enter into it, though 180 days is wildly optimistic (I have had to log in thirce today alone).

Rich Farmbrough 01:35 9 November 2012 (GMT).

Thanks, Rich. I've added a note explaining that the information is out of date. --Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 20:22, 26 December 2012 (UTC)Reply

Logging of account creation

What's the justification for placing every account creation (including username, which might be personally identifiable) in publicly available logs? Should users not at least be warned that this is going to happen when creating an account? Victor Yus (talk) 16:16, 6 February 2013 (UTC)Reply

Use of CDN sites for script delivery

The use of CDN sites for script delivery (I.e. jQuery from Google CDN, yes, I know it is available on WMF projects, but this concerns use from toolserver.org!) is not explicitly forbidden. This should be clarified. Ok, not ok? --Dschwen (talk) 19:41, 8 February 2013 (UTC)Reply