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> Web applications added to the home screen are not part of Safari and thus have their own counter of days of use. [...] We do not expect the first-party in suc
by iameli 7y ago
> Web applications added to the home screen are not part of Safari and thus have their own counter of days of use. [...] We do not expect the first-party in such a web application to have its website data deleted.
I don't get it. Which of these statements is correct?
1. "Web applications added to the home screen are not part of Safari and thus have their own counter of days of use. Of course, that counter doesn't do anything. It just sits there, counting, for no particular reason. We just love counting things!"
2. "We do not expect the first-party in such a web application to have its website data deleted. Except, of course, if they don't use the web application for seven days. In that case, that data will be _extremely_ deleted! Really just wiped from the face of the earth."
- kyralis 7y agoNeither. The counter is per days of application use, so (2) is false. Not using the app does not affect the counter. The counter is also per domain, and so while the first party domain for the PWA (which is likely to, of course, be loaded on each PWA launch) is effectively meaningless, if you visit other domains from within the PWA they will be subject to the counter independently.
- iameli 7y agoOkay, that makes sense - counter is third-party domains only. Thanks!
- Dylan16807 7y agoSo let's say I launch the zombocom app, then click a link inside the app for "zombo updates" that goes to their twitter. Then the next few times I switch to the app, I don't launch it from scratch, I just look at the twitter. Then I've gone seven days inside the zombocom app without touching their actual domain. Does everything except the twitter cookies get deleted?
- iameli 7y agoI believe the first-party primary domain of the app will never have its data wiped — though the article could certainly be clearer on the point. What would be cleared in that case would be any other domains — if there's also a "Visit Zombo Facebook" link in there, and you only looked at Twitter for a week, the Facebook cookies would be wiped.
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