Comment by c16
6 years ago
Chrome explicitly having a line [1] of code to not send the `x-client-data` header to Yahoo made me laugh.
[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/comp...
6 years ago
Chrome explicitly having a line [1] of code to not send the `x-client-data` header to Yahoo made me laugh.
[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/comp...
FWIW, it looks like that's a test case -- it is not part of Chrome itself. They most likely just wanted an example of a third-party website, and could have used any non-Google site there.
Yes, But they tested Yahoo of all websites to make sure they don't send tracking data, and not an unrelated website like wikipedia or archive.org. The only non-google test case too I might add.
It's a test case I wouldn't read too much into it. Maybe it's evidence of a massive anti-trust conspiracy at google, but it could very well be because it's the first domain that came to the programmer's mind at the time.
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I've long seen it almost as a tradition to use yahoo for things like testing if the internet is working, e.g. "ping yahoo.com". I suspect this isn't much more than that.
It's an arbitrary test string, not evidence of evil intent. A sufficiently uncharitable interpretation can make anyone's writing look evil. It's not so.