Re: [Vimprobable-users] Web Storage Patch

[Jan N. <ma...@ja...>]

Hi,

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

I am. Picked the wrong address. Sorry.

> 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?

I guess there are non-evil uses for Web Storage. Matt named a good example. And I like the idea. But can you name a website you regularly visit, that relies on it? I can't.

My local WebStorage-directory was about 30M large when I looked into it. Most of the files only contained a single string, often named UniqueID or something. Youtube, faz.net or the usual trackers like Doubleclick just stored cookies. So far I didn't find a website that stored more than that.

As these are stored without time limits and Webkit doesn't provide any means to control their storage, I went for turning off Web Storage per default. But I only tried it for some days, so I wouldn't recommend it for now. 

Besides, I doubt it makes it much harder to track you, when you use a useragent that's, let's say, not very common ;)

Jan