Re: [Vimprobable-users] Web Storage Patch

[Hannes S. <ha...@yl...>]

Hi Jan,

(putting you in copy since you don't seem to be subscribed)

Jan Niemeyer <ma...@ja...> wrote:
> I recently became interested in DOM or Web Storage and how
> vimprobable and webkitgtk handles it. It turned out to be on by
> default. Looking into ~/.local/share/webkit/databases I found it to
> be full of supercookies. Being a privacy-aware user, I tried to find
> a workaround for this.
> 
> Attached is a small patch that switches Web Storage off by default.
> However, it can be turned on with ":set localstorage true" per
> session or permanently in config.h.

Providing a switch for this is definitely a great idea! However, I'm
also not really proficient as to what this is actually used for. Can we
be confident that it's all spyware and tracking so that we should have
it off by default? Or are there actually non-evil uses of the function
out there in the wild?

Hannes