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It’s pretty obvious how that is helpful to protect users’ privacy, isn’t it? Or why would they do it, considering it’s extra work compared to the status quo?

• afavour 5y ago
  Of course, I absolutely understand how it prevents illegitimate uses of local data storage to violate privacy. My concern is that it also destroys entirely legitimate use cases for local storage and the only way to mitigate that is to open users to a whole new class of security vulnerability they can do very little to protect themselves from.
  • KarlKemp 5y ago
    I believe the criteria are more complex than just “7 days”. There’s something about AI or ML in the Safari “experiments” settings, and IIRC first- vs. third-party data is handled differently, and data may also be protected for more than a week if you previously had regular interactions with the domain.
    • javitury 5y ago
      That uncertainty is still a blocker for many apps.