Re:Full third-party cookie blocking and more
by jessaustin on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:11PM
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Chromium (and derivatives such as Edge) allows users to install web apps. You're right that such a facility could be used as a signal for webkit that a particular site's IDB data should be retained for longer than a week.
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Re:Full third-party cookie blocking and more
by zamalek on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:23PM
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> install web apps
That's what a PWA is :). Browsers should lift these restrictions for installed PWAs, and probably do.
Re:Full third-party cookie blocking and more
by jessaustin on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:32PM
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The browser under discussion in TFA doesn't have PWAs as such. [0] Of course I agree with your restatement of what I said browsers should do upthread. b^)
Re:Full third-party cookie blocking and more
by untog on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @09:53AM
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Safari still lets you add a web app to the homescreen, though. It could be used as a signal.
Re:Full third-party cookie blocking and more
by mtedwards on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @03:03PM
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Yeah it seems they are encouraging that as a solution. Unless I’m misunderstanding.
“ Web applications added to the home screen are not part of Safari and thus have their own counter of days of use. Their days of use will match actual use of the web application which resets the timer. We do not expect the first-party in such a web application to have its website data deleted.
If your web application does experience website data deletion, please let us know since we would consider it a serious bug. It is not the intention of Intelligent Tracking Prevention to delete website data for first parties in web applications.”
Re:Full third-party cookie blocking and more
by jessaustin on Thursday March 26, 2020 @09:44AM
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Was that section originally in TFA? It's encouraging, but it certainly contradicts claims that this will only be applied to "3rd party" stuff in iframes...