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The page reports "Your browser does not support HTML5 local storage", because the browser here is configured to block that.

Your game doesn't need local storage. It doesn't get to plant tracking information.

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Have you looked at the source? Maybe it caches a bunch of expensive to compute stuff? Or are you just assuming it wants to track you?

It seems to be caching game assets. After loading the game once (which took a while), the subsequent loading times were dramatically reduced. Though this is purely based off of quickly opening and closing the website, so I can't completely verify anything.

The browser already caches most things, and caching binary assets (like graphics) in localStorage would require base64 conversion, adding 30% of bloat to data size, not to mention computational overhead.

I guess you won't be playing the game then, huh? Tracking information, heh. As if that's the only use for local storage.

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