[Solved] How to immediately autodelete cookies in modern versions of Firefox?
Edit: After reading the recommendations & arguments at arkenfox, I have opted to remove CookieAutoDelete as well as PrivacyBadger and CanvasBlocker. Instead I have:
- set Enhanced Tracking Protection to “Strict”;
- setup uBlock Origin to level “medium”;
- tweaked some extra
about:configentries as recommended here and here, except forprivacy.resistFingerprinting.
I’ll also consider setting network.cookie.lifetimePolicy to 2 for having all cookies session-only (apart from whitelisted ones).
I observe a much faster loading of the pages now!
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/69883263
My preference is to immediately remove cookies from domains, as soon as (or just some seconds after) a tab with that domain is closed. Except some whitelisted domains specified by me.
To do this, I’ve used – for years – Cookie Autodelete. But I’ve discovered now that it doesn’t work with Firefox’s Strict Mode (the extension says “strict mode is not supported”).
All in all I think my understanding of Firefox’s capabilities and policies regarding cookies and similar extensions is outdated. I’d be grateful to anyone who can offer insights or links to well-informed sites about this.
i use temporary containers, might be slightly different from what you expect but it works very well for my usage and i recommend it
This is almost certainly what OP wants.
Cookies are just one kind of persistent data. And some sites intentionally disrespect boundaries.
Thank you! Looking into it. To be honest I still don’t quite understand the idea behind it – I’m reading here and there to try to understand better.