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Re:ImmortalDB – A resilient key-value store for the browser by rufio on Monday January 28, 2019 @07:45PM (#19022665)
what caused you to write this library? do you believe it will be used for nefarious purposes?

thank you for open sourcing your work

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Re:ImmortalDB – A resilient key-value store for the browser by grun on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @04:19AM (#19024959)
> what caused you to write this library?

On smaller devices, a few kb of important data in LocalStorage was periodically deleted without user intervention.

> do you believe it will be used for nefarious purposes?

If one is nefarious of heart, https://github.com/samyk/evercookie supersedes ImmortalDB.

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