[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 216430] [GTK] Epiphany does not make connections in Incognito Mode after clearing .cache

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216430

--- Comment #10 from Adrian Perez <aperez at igalia.com> ---
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #7)
> Oops. :) Thanks.
> 
> I think it's OK to write the adblock filters to disk because they're the
> same for every user; they do not contain any website data. That's why
> they're shared by storing them in the default cache directory instead of
> using the WebKitWebsiteDataManager's cache directory. There's no point in
> trying to avoid writing them; it would only slow down the browser for users
> who set the browser to always start in incognito mode, since then you'd need
> to wait for them to download each time you launch the browser.

I agree with Michael here: The bytecode in filters depends only on the input
JSON rules, which do not contain any user/website specific data. Epiphany
adds sidecar files (a serialized GVariant) with some metadata which also
does not contain any user/website specific data.

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