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On one hand, I don't like this direction from Apple because it's meant to boost Apple's proprietary app store business -- which directly competes with the open web -- but masquerades as a privacy issue.

On the other hand, this direction keeps web devs honest: local storage, service worker, cookies and other script-writable areas are meant to be temporary.

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I see nothing in any of the specs that implies local storage was intended to be temporary? You could argue cookies, maybe, but even that I'd dispute: it is a user-agent, I should be able to tell it "don't delete my stuff". I already have browser controls over my local storage: I can go into settings in every reasonable browser and flush that down the tubes.

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