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by paulgb 1520 days ago
If you are using an incognito tab, anything in local storage, cookies, even caches should go away. I am not 100% up on the details but I believe modern browsers are pretty strict about isolating incognito state.

You're right though in general, that's why the incognito tab is important.

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This is correct, but you need to close ALL incognito tabs for storage to get wiped, not just the tab you loaded the site in.
I mean, I considered this implied within the suggestion of using incognito mode.

In any event, it's an unrealistic attack vector. No bad actor is going to target 0.1% of edge cases when you could get enough damaging information from people who do not go through this process and remain connected to the internet.

Just making it clear for anyone that doesn't know. It's caught me off guard before.
That depends on the browser, I believe.