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by e28eta 1208 days ago
I think there’s an interesting parallel with “supercookies” on the web, or the long-running battle on iOS to permanently, uniquely identify phones.

Should the user be able to control their machine, and delete data that the app has written? Should they be able to ‘look like a new user’?

Or should companies/apps have the ability to keep persistent data on the user’s machine, and/or link them to a previously collected set of data about that user?