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Dictionary entries (or at least the metadata) should be cleared any time cookies are cleared.

So it seems it should not get you anything you cannot already do with cookies.

https://github.com/WICG/compression-dictionary-transport/blo...

It's interesting this is mentioned specifically about the metadata used by this feature: fingerprinting using this feature has similarities with other cache fingerprinting (wrote a sibling comment about that).

It's not actively bad to have defense-in-depth measures at the level of the dictionary feature. But if your implementation of dictionaries using your browser's existing cache policies is a privacy problem, I'd consider changing the cache, not just the shared-dictionary implementation.

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