under settings,privacy and security, under cookies and site data (just above the “Clear cookies and site data every time you close Firefox” box) there’s “manage exceptions” that will exclude your favorites from getting erased every time.
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autriyo@feddit.org 3 days agoI want some of them to stay though, it wouldn’t be a huge hassle to not have them, but I’m a bit lazy…
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
MaskedNybbles@piefed.social 3 days ago
Yeah, this is what I do. Only wish mobile had the option.
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I just press ctrl+i and add the website as an exception :P
StellarExtract@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
The firefox extension “forget me not” allows you to fully control which cookies are retained, which are deleted, and how/when. It’s easy to customize individual sites on the fly. And it’s open source!
Winter_Oven@piefed.social 3 days ago
Pretty sure there is an “Allow” exception that you can use to keep cookies for the sites you want.
(I think you) click on the shield in the URL bar, and a small window comes, which should have a small toggle that says “Keep cookies and site data”.
RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I wish there was an option to clear third-party cookies automatically
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Advertisers get around that by masquerading their cookies to appear not third party.
RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I’m not aware of this. Can you elaborate?
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Essentially, when browsers started to initially implement toggles to block third party cookies more than a decade ago, advertisers in response pressured website hosts to mark their cookies as “essential/required” (AKA forced cookies). You will not get the same revenue as a website host if you do not play ball with this, and some go even a step further by routing/disguising their cookies through trusted domains (google, amazon, etc…) to mask the “true source” , in an attempt to mitigate detection from basic browser filters.
Ublock Origin and the like are pretty good at catching most of them through crowdsourced lists though.
sep@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Firefox’s total cookie protrction is excelent. Basically cookies are sandboxed into site spesific boxes. So ie a facebook cookie can not be read by the favcebook script on another site. Only on the site that set the original cookie.
www.firefox.com/en-US/…/total-cookie-protection/
tyler@programming.dev 3 days ago
Holy shit that’s a good idea
87Six@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I’m not aware of that specifically, but LibreWolf by default blocks all cookies and allows you to set specific sites which can store cookies, very easily, using a sitr whitelist.
This combined with ublock origin should improve your privacy a lot without sacrificing any usability at all.
markz@suppo.fi 3 days ago
Sites often use different domains for things so they might be difficult to differentiate reliably