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If this sets a precedent, I imagine class-action suits against Meta, reddit, et al. follow very shortly thereafter. I remember even 7-10 years ago experiencing
by uoaei 4y ago
If this sets a precedent, I imagine class-action suits against Meta, reddit, et al. follow very shortly thereafter.
I remember even 7-10 years ago experiencing numerous bugs where the only reasonable explanation (to me) was that they were storing page and form state server-side and there were syncing issues with the client. Things like typing a sentence, deleting it, and then it re-appearing in weird ways as I wrote a new sentence to replace it in a comment form box. I had just kind of assumed this was par for the course with umitigated surveillance by social media companies but hadn't realized this law exists to allegedly disallow that kind of thing.
I remember even back then saying things like "if you give Facebook web access to your camera they will use that to track what you're looking at on the webpage" and sounding paranoid to my colleagues but it doesn't seem so far-fetched now. I'm sure that's a big part of why TikTok works so well too -- many people grant access to the camera because of naivete or because they want to record and upload their own videos from the mobile app. Knowing where attention is in the finest detail is probably a big advantage.
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- mmastrac 4y agoStoring form state server-side is incredibly common, and users _want_ that functionality in most cases. One of the most common sign-up frustrations is entering everything into a sign-up form, clicking submit and having some or all of that information cleared and having to re-type it. There's no privacy concerns about storing form data temporarily to regurgitate it on reload, and it _should_ be a best practice.
- xboxnolifes 4y agoIs your example not usually solved with local storage, not server storage?
- uoaei 4y ago> There's no privacy concerns about storing form data temporarily to regurgitate it on reload This is obviously wrong, because it doesn't actually address privacy concerns at all. "Storing form data temporarily" says nothing about what other services/programs/people can access that data while it is stored. And anyway, sibling comment has a very good point about local storage vs server storage.