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Re:macOS keeps a huge wallpapers cache by jtbayly on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @07:34PM (#33002525)
I feel like I'd have a better chance clearing the cache for the app than the cache for the web app.
Re:macOS keeps a huge wallpapers cache by jrajav on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @10:21PM (#33003566)
It's a few clicks in any browsers dev tools or a few more clicks in the settings, and is the same for every website.

With a native app the cache could be in any number of places on your hard drive, you have to depend on a function being in the app to clear it, deleting it manually might have unknown side effects, and it's all nonstandard.

Re:macOS keeps a huge wallpapers cache by hombre_fatal on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @10:27AM (#33008355)
Websites can’t write to arbitrary places on your FS and the browser has a central way to delete the data that a website can write.

Desktop apps can write anywhere, and what it writes might or might not be a cache, so there’s no way to centrally manage it. Apps like cache-cleaners simply hard-code common cache paths for common apps.