Web Storage, the new LSO. Also DRM thread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_storage

Called by most DOM Storage, not to be misleading or anything.

DOM Storage is useful because no good browser-only methods exist for persisting reasonable amounts of data for any period of time. Browser cookies have limited capacity and provide no support for organizing persisted data, and other methods (such as Flash Local Storage) require an external plugin.

So like, who knew about this, and let it slide?
And why is the W3C still sucking corporate dicks?
Don't we have a mechanism against this, no defence?

>>1
Forgot to highlight

persisting reasonable amounts of data for any period of time

'cause, web objects and ``applications'' need MBs worth of crap for an eternity. So better browsers cater to web owners' shitty data structures, since they can't build their own crappy database file on their own.

More on it, if you have not idea:
http://webdevwonders.com/dom-storage-super-cookie/

Who the fuck didn't know about this? This is years old. What's the fucking problem anyway? They are trivial to delete and edit, since it's just a JSON object. I'd say they are better than cookies because they don't get sent to the server with every single request. If shit is going to be stored, it is better that the user have control over it.

Also, take your webdev shit back to /g/.

>>4
That's what I mean:

it is better that the user have control over it.

which clearly now, users don't have full control over. Most don't know it exists. and what's happening, is that malware and agencies are using it to not only track users, but install spyware and rootkits on the browser.

found one defence against it:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/?src=search