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This is most likely a website keeping the same data in HTML5 web storage, flash cookies or other, and when noticing one of them has been removed, repopulating t

• icebraining 8y ago
  It seems it was kept in IndexedDB, but Chrome was only cleaning it up when you closed it and not when you closed all its windows (I didn't even know there was a difference). https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=750452#c22 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=750452...
  • OJFord 8y ago
    There is on macOS, (for all 'apps', not just Chrome) but not, I think, on any other platform. I don't know why anyone feel anything more than indifference about it; I find it annoying. I used to use a tool (I think it was called RedQuits) that implemented the windows closed -> app quit behaviour.
• cm2187 8y ago
  Hold on. The setting is called “keep local data only until you quit your browser”. Not “local cookies”. And that’s always how I expected it to work. If it preserves data from web storage or others than this is either a massive fuck up or a disingenuous placebo setting.
  • toyg 8y ago
    I believe handling of Flash cookies is completely outside the browser.
    • votepaunchy 8y ago
      Flash is bundled with and sandboxed by Chrome.
      • l24ztj 8y ago
        And disabled by default, too.
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  • sfopdxnonstop 8y ago
    Isn't local data a superset of local cookies?