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Some interesting variants are thusly suggested:

• loading starts a countdown timer, visible on screen: after that long, the message is destroyed. (In the meantime, an iPad re-download succeeds.)

• the reader sees a big button on the page which must be pressed to complete deletion (or to speed deletion, if the above timer is counting down).

* on initial load, the browser is given a unique cookie (or even decryption key); from then on, even if the message has an additional countdown 'grace period' (of seconds, days, or longer), only that one browser can reload (or decrypt) it.



Your first two don't solve the problem of someone listening in on your conversation and visiting the link first (or shortly after you).


So?

(That 'problem' wasn't even mentioned in the parent to which I was responding.)




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