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it's almost like allowing websites to silently create databases on our computers, was a bad idea.
by cmsj 5y ago
it's almost like allowing websites to silently create databases on our computers, was a bad idea.
- kitsunesoba 5y agoIt would seem I’m not alone in thinking that many web features are too implicit. “Dialog fatigue” or “ok-click syndrome” are real problems, but for many features I think the correct behavior is probably not a silent grant. Anything that consumes the user’s resources after navigating away from the page should probably require direct user consent in some form or another.
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoYep... look at just the cookie prompts,.. they suck, the users just click "agree", and if they want to disagree, they have to invest sometimes literal minutes, to unheck all the cookie providers. The default should be always to delete everything after a website/tab is closed. Want to store a login? Set up a button next to the url bar to enable persistant storage for that specific webpage, and you're done.
- kitsunesoba 5y agoI think it would work well if installing web apps as PWAs, with the PWAs’ webviews being sandboxed and backed by their own entirely separate storage, cookies, etc, was what enabled persistent features. It would eliminate several types of fingerprinting in one fell swoop.
- hombre_fatal 5y agoPeople would then just be trained to always click that button, even preemptively, as a magical fix button. And we'd get a whole new Youtubey "remember to smash that button!" but for every website.
- nexuist 5y agoAlmost every web page demands a login today...you want to be the browser vendor dealing with the literal billions of users lodging complaints because they forget to click the save button before closing a tab and now they have to log in again?
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoHow many sites are you actually logged into? I can count maybe 4, 5, and out of that, i use maybe 2 daily.
- nexuist 5y agoNo joke - at least 50. I use maybe 10 daily, and the other 40 I check monthly.
- tgv 5y agoCookie dialogs are set up that way because they know people will agree. A website I visit regularly (and have a subscription for, soundonsound.com), had a very easy cookie dialog. But no longer. Now you must accept their cookies (it’s quite a lot, really). One can only guess why.
- jmull 5y agoThis doesn't really have anything to do with IndexedDB being about databases.