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Re:Service Workers by fungi on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @06:15AM (#17857697)
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.

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Re:Service Workers by JeremyBanks on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @06:33AM (#17857746)
Service Workers isn't a new persistence mechanism, it uses existing ones.
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Re:Service Workers by detaro on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @09:11AM (#17858516)
Does it? It can access them, but clearing the existing ones doesn't necessarily clear the SW I think?
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