@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@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.
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.