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by Analemma_ 2993 days ago
That's interesting. Why are the storage APIs disabled, instead of just using ephemeral storage that goes away when the window is cleared?
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It's less work to disable them. There's likely already an API access control system in place, for internal-only APIs, testing, etc.
It also means sites can avoid promising to do things that aren't actually possible, like saving information for access next time.