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.
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RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 1 month agoI wish there was an option to clear third-party cookies automatically
sep@lemmy.world 1 month ago
tyler@programming.dev 1 month ago
Holy shit that’s a good idea
87Six@lemmy.zip 1 month 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 1 month ago
Sites often use different domains for things so they might be difficult to differentiate reliably
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Advertisers get around that by masquerading their cookies to appear not third party.
RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I’m not aware of this. Can you elaborate?
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month 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.