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Absence of scripts or cookies should not be worth fewer points than secure cookies/scripts #449

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Seirdy opened this issue Aug 1, 2021 · 0 comments · May be fixed by #478
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Absence of scripts or cookies should not be worth fewer points than secure cookies/scripts #449

Seirdy opened this issue Aug 1, 2021 · 0 comments · May be fixed by #478

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Seirdy commented Aug 1, 2021

Currently, the HTTP Observatory grants an extra 5 points for secure cookies and 5 for scripts with SRI; it grants +0 if a site has no cookies and +0 for sites without any scripts.

Secure cookies and scripts aren't as secure as an absence of cookies and scripts, so it doesn't make sense to give sites with these features a higher score than cookieless/scriptless sites. Rewarding cookieless/scriptless sites at least as much could help push the idea that cookies and scripts shouldn't be used unnecessarily.

KamilaBorowska added a commit to KamilaBorowska/http-observatory that referenced this issue May 18, 2022
HTTP Observatory shouldn't encourage web developers to add cookies
to their website simply to get more points. Fixes mozilla#449.
@KamilaBorowska KamilaBorowska linked a pull request May 18, 2022 that will close this issue
Seirdy added a commit to Seirdy/http-observatory that referenced this issue Sep 20, 2022
HTTP Observatory shouldn't encourage web developers to add scripts to
their website simply to get more points. Fixes mozilla#449
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