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fungi on Aug 28, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Service Workers

Open up about:serviceworkers and observe the wonders of cookies 2.0

Kinda sucks that something with such promise is predominantly used as just another weapon for tracking.

JeremyBanks on Aug 28, 2018 [–]

Service Workers isn't a new persistence mechanism, it uses existing ones.

detaro on Aug 28, 2018 | [–]

Does it? It can access them, but clearing the existing ones doesn't necessarily clear the SW I think?

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