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[e] (0) Tidy up the cookie resurrection text.
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Hixie committed Sep 14, 2009
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<dt>Treating persistent storage as cookies</dt>
<dd>

<p>User agents should present the
<p>If users attempt to protect their privacy by clearing cookies
without also clearing data stored in the

<!--END database-->
persistent storage feature
persistent storage
<!--END storage-->
<!--START database-->
database feature
database
<!--START storage-->
to the user in a way that associates them strongly with HTTP
session cookies. <a href="#refsCOOKIES">[COOKIES]</a></p>

<p>This might encourage users to view such storage with healthy
suspicion.</p>
feature, sites can defeat those attempts by using the two features
as redundant backup for each other. User agents should present the
interfaces for clearing these in a way that helps users to
understand this possibility and enables them to delete data in all
persistent storage features simultaneously. <a
href="#refsCOOKIES">[COOKIES]</a></p>

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separate sessions into coherent user profiles.</p>


<h5>Cookie resurrection</h5>

<p>If the user interface for persistent storage presents data in the
persistent storage features described in this specification
separately from data in HTTP session cookies, then users are likely
to delete data in one and not the other. This would allow sites to
use the two features as redundant backup for each other, defeating a
user's attempts to protect his privacy.</p>


<h5>Sensitivity of data</h5>

<p>User agents should treat persistently stored data as potentially
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