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by azernik 2425 days ago
That's in theory. In actual reality, if you're making an app that has private data and is not crawled by bots, most of the time users don't save everything that they see.
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I think the parent means clients (user agents), not actual human users. As soon as any state that needs to be hidden is exposed to clients, that's a security breach regardless of whether any human eyeballs have seen it.
This is true, too, but I meant users, too. It's all too common for users to screenshot things, etc. I see it a lot of the time on Twitter for example. You can delete tweets, but oftentimes it's pointless. But I also regularly see my gf taking photos with her phone of various apps she uses on her notebook, just to have the info around on her phone. I suspect it's pretty common, because it's much more low-tech then saving pages or API scraping.