@WhoRoger@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-21 year agoWebsites telling me what I can do with my own browser so they can have their pointless cookieslemmy.worldimagemessage-square87fedilinkarrow-up1230file-text
arrow-up1230imageWebsites telling me what I can do with my own browser so they can have their pointless cookieslemmy.world@WhoRoger@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-21 year agomessage-square87fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@possiblylinux127@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoHonestly people should just set there browser to clear cookies on close
minus-square@LufyCZ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoCan’t say I like logging into all of my accounts (most of which gave 2FA as well) 3 times a day
minus-square@FearTheCron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoIt would be nice if you could whitelist sites for cookies. That way you can stay logged into things like email.
minus-square@DarthRedLeader@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoYou 100% can. That’s exactly how I have mine set up. It clears cookies on exit but then I manage a whitelist. Here are the Chrome instructions. Firefox is more or less the same. https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform=Desktop#zippy=%2Callow-or-block-cookies-for-a-specific-site
minus-squareMiladylinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoYou can, on firefox at least. No add ons required it’s a browser feature.
minus-squareThreeChonkyCatslinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoUse the extension/add-on “cookie auto-delete” https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/ It’s magic! And “I don’t care about cookies” https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/ This clears those annoying GPDR things. These two add-ons will change your life. They are available for all the browsers, not just Firefox.
Honestly people should just set there browser to clear cookies on close
Can’t say I like logging into all of my accounts (most of which gave 2FA as well) 3 times a day
It would be nice if you could whitelist sites for cookies. That way you can stay logged into things like email.
You 100% can. That’s exactly how I have mine set up. It clears cookies on exit but then I manage a whitelist.
Here are the Chrome instructions. Firefox is more or less the same.
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform=Desktop#zippy=%2Callow-or-block-cookies-for-a-specific-site
You can, on firefox at least. No add ons required it’s a browser feature.
Use the extension/add-on “cookie auto-delete” https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/
It’s magic!
And “I don’t care about cookies” https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/
This clears those annoying GPDR things.
These two add-ons will change your life.
They are available for all the browsers, not just Firefox.