WhoRoger@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 years agoWebsites telling me what I can do with my own browser so they can have their pointless cookieslemmy.worldimagemessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up1179arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1174arrow-down1imageWebsites telling me what I can do with my own browser so they can have their pointless cookieslemmy.worldWhoRoger@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 years agomessage-square80fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareFearTheCron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoIt would be nice if you could whitelist sites for cookies. That way you can stay logged into things like email.
minus-squareDarthRedLeader@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years 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-squareThreeChonkyCats@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years 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.
minus-squareMilady@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down20·2 years agoYou can, on firefox at least. No add ons required it’s a browser feature.
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
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.
You can, on firefox at least. No add ons required it’s a browser feature.