My biggest issue with storing data inside the browser is the lack of tools to set up filter rules for clearing or explicitly not clearing website-specific application data.
Looking at Chrome's Inspector, Application Storage has "Local Storage", "Session Storage", "IndexedDB", "WebSQL" and "Cookies".
If I decide to clear all this stored data stored for all the pages with one button press in the settings, how can I be sure I'm excluding something important? Or if I install a new extension which helps me manage privacy, how can I be sure that it won't delete all this data because I forgot to add a site to its whitelist?
I don’t think the average users ever delete any of their browser data. In this case however, the whole idea would be that there is redundancy and it is ok for you to clear your cache and storage. As for the hoster, they would probably use a nodejs type server to host their files instead of relying on having a browser tab open.
However, I do agree that relying on regular web browsers is not a good idea. A browser update could limit resources of background tabs even more than they normally do and soon your application is down.
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My biggest issue with storing data inside the browser is the lack of tools to set up filter rules for clearing or explicitly not clearing website-specific application data.
Looking at Chrome's Inspector, Application Storage has "Local Storage", "Session Storage", "IndexedDB", "WebSQL" and "Cookies".
If I decide to clear all this stored data stored for all the pages with one button press in the settings, how can I be sure I'm excluding something important? Or if I install a new extension which helps me manage privacy, how can I be sure that it won't delete all this data because I forgot to add a site to its whitelist?
I don’t think the average users ever delete any of their browser data. In this case however, the whole idea would be that there is redundancy and it is ok for you to clear your cache and storage. As for the hoster, they would probably use a nodejs type server to host their files instead of relying on having a browser tab open.
However, I do agree that relying on regular web browsers is not a good idea. A browser update could limit resources of background tabs even more than they normally do and soon your application is down.
Firefox has a feature ”Forget site” in its History tab.
But it literally nukes everything, including saved passwords.