Show HN: Make your PDF look scanned in browser

Re:Show HN: Make your PDF look scanned in browser by paulgb on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @03:53PM (#31088105)

If you are using an incognito tab, anything in local storage, cookies, even caches should go away. I am not 100% up on the details but I believe modern browsers are pretty strict about isolating incognito state.

You're right though in general, that's why the incognito tab is important.

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Re:Show HN: Make your PDF look scanned in browser by jonny_eh on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @06:40PM (#31090322)

This is correct, but you need to close ALL incognito tabs for storage to get wiped, not just the tab you loaded the site in.

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Re:Show HN: Make your PDF look scanned in browser by YPPH on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @10:02PM (#31091926)

I mean, I considered this implied within the suggestion of using incognito mode.

In any event, it's an unrealistic attack vector. No bad actor is going to target 0.1% of edge cases when you could get enough damaging information from people who do not go through this process and remain connected to the internet.

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Re:Show HN: Make your PDF look scanned in browser by jonny_eh on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @10:35PM (#31092151)

Just making it clear for anyone that doesn't know. It's caught me off guard before.

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Re:Show HN: Make your PDF look scanned in browser by lxgr on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @09:27PM (#31091683)

That depends on the browser, I believe.

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