Privacy and sensitive information

Part of &dactyl.appName;'s user efficiency comes at the cost of storing a lot of potentially private data, including command-line history, page marks, visited page history, and the like. Because we know that keeping a detailed trail of all of your activities isn't always welcome, &dactyl.appName; provides comprehensive facilities for erasing potentially sensitive data.

Private browsing

&dactyl.appName; fully supports &dactyl.host;'s private browsing mode. When in private browsing mode, no data other than Bookmarks and QuickMarks are written to disk. Further, upon exiting private mode, all newly accumulated data, including command-line history, local and URL marks, and macros, are purged from memory.

Clearing private data

In addition to private mode, &dactyl.appName; provides a comprehensive facility for clearing any potentially sensitive data generated by either &dactyl.appName; or &dactyl.host;. It directly integrates with &dactyl.host;'s own sanitization facility, and so automatically clears any domain data and session history when requested. Further, &dactyl.appName; provides its own more granular sanitization facility, which allows, e.g., clearing only the command-line and macro history for the past ten minutes.

:sa :sanitize :sanitize -host=host -older -timespan=timespan item … :sanitize! -host=host -older -timespan=timespan

Clear private data items for timespan, where item … is a list of private items to delete. If ! is specified, then sanitizeitems is used for the list of items to delete. Items may be any of:

Items may be excluded by prefixing them with a !. The first matching item takes precedence. Therefore, the value !commandline all will sanitize all items but the command line. A value of all !commandline will sanitize all items.

When history items are sanitized, all command-line history items containing URLs or page titles (other than bookmark commands) are additionally cleared. Invocations of the :sanitize command are included in this set.

If timespan (short name -t) is specified, only items within that timespan are deleted, otherwise the value of sanitizetimespan is used. If -older (short name -o) is specified, then only items older than timespan are deleted.

The following items are always cleared entirely, regardless of timespan: cache, host, offlineapps, passwords, sessions, sitesettings. Conversely, host and options are never cleared unless a host is specified.

If host (short name -h) is specified, only items containing a reference to that domain or a subdomain thereof are cleared. Moreover, if either of commandline or history is specified, the invocation of the :sanitize command is naturally cleared as well.

This only applies to commandline, cookies, history, marks, messages, options, and sitesettings. All other domain-specific data is cleared only along with host, when a request is made to &dactyl.host; to purge all data for host. Included in this purge are all matching history entries, cookies, closed tabs, form data, and location bar entries. :private :pr :pr0n :porn :private cmd

Execute cmd with privacy features enabled, and do not save the invocation in command history.

Cookie settings

:cookies :ck :cookies host action …

Manage cookies for host. Additionally, the completion list will show you information about the cookies and permissions for the current page.

Available actions:

unset: Unset special permissions for host
allow: Allow cookies from host
deny: Deny cookies from host
session: Allow cookies from host for the current session
list: List all cookies for host
clear: Clear all cookies for host
clear-persistent: Clear all persistent cookies for host
clear-session: Clear all session cookies for host

If no action is given, the value of cookies is used.

:map -b c :cookies