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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday December 18 2019, @12:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the now-you-see-it-now-you-don't dept.

Where's our data, Google? Chrome 79 update 'a catastrophe' for Android devs with WebView apps:

A change to the location of profile data in Chrome 79 on Android, the new version rolling out now, means that applications using the WebView component lose data stored locally.

"This is a catastrophe; our users' data are being deleted as they receive the update," complained one developer.

[...] Google said it has halted the rollout, which is estimated at 50 per cent of devices.

The problem appears to stem from a change to the location of profile data in Chromium, the open source project on which Google Chrome is based. Some applications, such as those built with Apache Cordova, use the WebView component extensively, and in these cases the location of local data is determined by this component.

The upgrade to Chrome 79 should migrate this data to the new location, but a Chromium engineer remarked that "unfortunately local storage was missed off the list of files migrated."

[...] It gets worse. "There are several more missed migrations. 'databases' contains the websql dbs 'QuotaManager', and 'QuotaManager-journal' tracks site storage quotas," said another engineer.

One would think that after the deleting of user's files by a Microsoft Windows auto-update raised such a backlash, that testing for loss of data would be a top priority.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by legont on Wednesday December 18 2019, @07:09PM

    by legont (4179) on Wednesday December 18 2019, @07:09PM (#933854)

    Exactly.

    I would like to add that there is perhaps a deeper reason for this kind of innovation, namely the way inflation is calculated. If a car gets another cap holder and a corresponding price increase, it is not counted as inflation. The reported overall car's prices stay the same even though one can't get a car for the old price (presumably without the extra holder).
    This strategy makes it possible to claim low inflation and allows money printing. Some, if not most of the innovation is an accounting scam designed to rob middle class.

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