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by ericfrederich 1806 days ago
How about after load, that tab automatically goes completely offline. Users can manually do this in Chrome on a tab by tab basis by using developer console and setting Throttling to "Offline"
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That sounds more promising. The site might be able to store data and then send it the next time the page is loaded. I think at the end of the day, a malicious dev could probably find a workaround to most implementations. Might just be better to vet out sites and use reputation to state they are truly offline.
I hear what you're saying, but I also believe this to be a solvable problem
Note that the "offline" mode in devtools doesn't kill any websocket connections. It may have other holes i'm not aware of also.