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Firefox and cookie micromanagement

Firefox and cookie micromanagement

Posted Mar 24, 2016 20:11 UTC (Thu) by ewen (subscriber, #4772)
Parent article: Firefox and cookie micromanagement

I've used that feature for years. You don't get new questions every few seconds. Except when going to a site you've never been to before, and realising that the "use my answer for all cookies on this site" response is ignored for parallel requests that started before your first answer, forcing you to answer for every tracking cookie on every image, etc, of a site that just Really Really wants to track you. Otherwise it only questions periodically on visiting some new site, where mostly I don't want to be tracked, but sometimes cookies are needed to use the site (eg online store, or broken redirects). Off the top of my head it probably only comes up 1-2 times a day in normally use, and it's been like that for years.

Apparently I now have the window between the "new major version every n (n < 10) weeks" coming out and when the "LTS" version updates to drop this useful functionality to find a workable alternative. Which hopefully is not "surrender to being tracked everywhere" or "log into *all* sites again on browser restart" (I restart my browser fairly often to shed the cookies needed to make some sites work for any visit, as well as session login cookies for site that I want to be *really* sure I've logged out).

I guess I can feel validated in going with the "LTS" version to at least get *some* advanced notice of "breaks your work flow, sorry, not sorry" changes coming.

Ewen


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