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		cm2187 on March 24, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chrome “clear cookies on exit” feature does not wo... Hold on. The setting is called “keep local data only until you quit your browser”. Not “local cookies”. And that’s always how I expected it to work. If it preserves data from web storage or others than this is either a massive fuck up or a disingenuous placebo setting.

toyg on March 24, 2019 | | [–]

I believe handling of Flash cookies is completely outside the browser.

votepaunchy on March 24, 2019 | | [–]

Flash is bundled with and sandboxed by Chrome.

l24ztj on March 24, 2019 | | | [–]

And disabled by default, too.

sfopdxnonstop on March 24, 2019 | [–]

Isn't local data a superset of local cookies?

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