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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
