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: https://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All in all I think my understanding of Firefox's capabilities and policies regarding cookies and similar extensions is outdated.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.
9 Comments
Vincent@feddit.nl · 8 pts · 14d
Temporary Containers is a bit clunky, but it achieves the same goal using native Firefox mechanisms, so I assume that it works for ETP Strict too.
pglpm@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 14d
Thank you. I'm trying to understand how it works :)
hexagonwin@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 14d
i use temporary containers, might be slightly different from what you expect but it works very well for my usage and i recommend it
pglpm@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 14d
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.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 1 pts · 14d
This is almost certainly what OP wants.
Cookies are just one kind of persistent data. And some sites intentionally disrespect boundaries.
drive_desaster@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 14d
I've used the forget me not add-on and didn't have any problems with it so faar, not sure about strict mode though. Its mostly been set and forget for me
pglpm@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 14d
Thank you for this suggestion. It looks good, but I see that its last update was 6 years ago. Sadly all or most extensions with this kind of functionality seem to have been abandoned...
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 14d
fwiw, there are extensions out there that do the same things that strict mode does so it's possible to use them along with cookie autodelete -- that's why i do.
sidebro@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 14d
Maybe this one works?
Haven't tried it myself. As far as I know there is no way to do this in Firefox outta the box or with any setting.