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!
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All in all I think my understanding of Firefox's capabilities and policies regarding cookies and similar extensions is outdated.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.
2 Comments
boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 6d
On desktop you can just do that natively and add an allowlist of sites to not delete? You can even put the allowlist and the configs in a policy.json and have them be non-overwritable by users.
On android I use CAD
pglpm@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 6d
You're right! I'll use that approach, much simpler :)