Re: [Vimprobable-users] Web Storage Patch

[Matt C. <je...@gm...>]

A lot of html5 games use it I believe.

On Aug 20, 2014 12:28 PM, "Hannes Schüller" <ha...@yl...> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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