Hi! Jan Niemeyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
That's my point - I can't, either. But then, I don't play online games, I don't visit any "social networks" or virtually any website considered "modern". Hence my question to the list :) > 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. Then we should just see how it develops. I will also switch it off by default and we'll see if we run into any problems. > Besides, I doubt it makes it much harder to track you, when you use a > useragent that's, let's say, not very common ;) Well, yes, but that's only a valid concern if you're worried about somebody targetting you specifically. I wouldn't expect this to be a huge issue for most users as opposed to the regular, untargeted mass tracking. Hannes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Vimprobable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vimprobable-users
