There's a secure wipe option. You can crank it up to some absurdly paranoid set of passes, although it takes a day or two to complete at that level given a reasonably large drive.
If you were ok running your previous apps you should also be ok with gathering usage data for a week before the OS attempts to do a hard cut-over to a more secure model.
I have a quarterly reminder set up in my iphone reminders app.
Whenever it goes off, I login to Google Takeout and trigger a full download of my data. I then download the file and put it on the hard drive of my computer, which is itself backed up to multiple hard drives via apple time machine (I have one drive i leave always plugged in, and one I plug in during the quarterly sync and then unplug for protection against ransomware or other attacks against my personal computer).
Simple, effective, and I could only ever lose up to a maximum of 3 months of data if banned from google.
Everything you've not visited in the last seven days, yes.
Things you touch regularly should be fine.
And apparently it only affects mass local storage, not cookies which are most often used for season management (so you might stay logged in but the app need to reset data previously called in local storage).
Gross. Imagine going on vacation for a week and not using a particular website during that time, and losing all your data.
Safari should have a big warning on top of that blog post saying, “all files will be deleted after 7 days unless these API’s are being used within a PWA”.
There's also some uncertainty around persistence of data if I start a paid plan (or trial) but do not continue.
Does the data I'd entered thus far get purged, and I would have to re-enter it if I picked the plan back up?
I feel like this kind of tool might be something I'd update once a quarter or once a year, but not want to pay for every month. But if my data is deleted in between uses, it's also a lot less useful. Is there a rational middle ground?
Persistent or longer than 7 days isn't guaranteed with sites added to home screen, though it rarely happens it can be cleared (has happened to me after iOS updates).
My only problem with the 7day storage limit is that every and any site gets the 7-day limit with no regard to if the user has interacted or actually used it, and to me that fails the privacy test. I've posted some ideas about that here before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30402242)
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