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		rufio on Jan 29, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ImmortalDB – A resilient key-value store for the b... what caused you to write this library? do you believe it will be used for nefarious purposes? thank you for open sourcing your work

grun on Jan 29, 2019 [–]

> what caused you to write this library?

On smaller devices, a few kb of important data in LocalStorage was periodically deleted without user intervention.

> do you believe it will be used for nefarious purposes?

If one is nefarious of heart, https://github.com/samyk/evercookie supersedes ImmortalDB.

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