Cookie whitelisting- is there a way?
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I am trying to set up cookie "rules" so that all cookies are deleted on exit EXCEPT these ones I've whitelisted. However I've discovered that the section "sites allowed to use third-party cookies" doesn't do what I thought it did, as I added my sites there with the expectation that next time I opened my browser and tab for the site, I would already be logged in courtesy of my whitelisted cookie. That is not happening and ALL cookies are being deleted. Is there a way to do this natively in Chrome? I'm aware there are third-party extensions of varying quality where you can customise these things but I'd rather not have another extension constantly running in the background,
I have tried various combinations of allowing/disallowing cookies and attempts with "Sites that can always use cookies" but if "Clear cookies and site data when you close all windows" is set, then it ignores your exception and all data gets cleared. There's a bit of a fine balance to be struck with cookies as disallowing or blocking them completely breaks a lot of sites, so I'm OK witth having them until I switch off but then want them deleted, except the cookies for sites like gmail, pistonheads and other "'login required' sites that I use daily where I want the cookies to be kept to save having to re-login every time.
It's quite possible I'm missing something obvious but I find it strange there isn't an option for "delete all site cookies except from these sites: ..."
I have tried various combinations of allowing/disallowing cookies and attempts with "Sites that can always use cookies" but if "Clear cookies and site data when you close all windows" is set, then it ignores your exception and all data gets cleared. There's a bit of a fine balance to be struck with cookies as disallowing or blocking them completely breaks a lot of sites, so I'm OK witth having them until I switch off but then want them deleted, except the cookies for sites like gmail, pistonheads and other "'login required' sites that I use daily where I want the cookies to be kept to save having to re-login every time.
It's quite possible I'm missing something obvious but I find it strange there isn't an option for "delete all site cookies except from these sites: ..."
r-kid said:
Do you need to stay with chrome?
If not Firefox has this exact setting, tick box to clear data on exit with an exceptions list for sites excluded from data deletion.
Yes, needs to be Chrome or Chrome based because one of my go-to sites doesn't play nice for Firefox on my old arse system. I'm actually using Supermium but it's basically Chrome under the hood. I'm trilliang MILK Cookie Manager extension which is doing what I need, however for some reason it doesn't work with Discord and I'm prompted to log-in again at the start of every new browser session. Cookie Editor extension has the same behaviour too. If not Firefox has this exact setting, tick box to clear data on exit with an exceptions list for sites excluded from data deletion.
LeoSayer said:
Doesn't incognito mode in Chrome do this?
If you use it only for the sites where you want the cookies deleted.
It does, but that means having 2 browser windows open which I'd rather not have, and also both have the same colour tab on the taskbar leading to clicking on the 'wrong' one sometimes. That said, it's actually what I have going as I couldn't find a better way that works. I'm keeping my "cookied" sites in the normal browser window and using incognito for any random sites. The only issue I'm really having is that google searches in incognito are requiring me to select all the traffic lights before it'll do anything - it really doesn't seem to like not knowing anything about me.If you use it only for the sites where you want the cookies deleted.
Edited by LeoSayer on Thursday 6th August 05:52
Tisy said:
LeoSayer said:
Doesn't incognito mode in Chrome do this?
If you use it only for the sites where you want the cookies deleted.
It does, but that means having 2 browser windows open which I'd rather not have, and also both have the same colour tab on the taskbar leading to clicking on the 'wrong' one sometimes. That said, it's actually what I have going as I couldn't find a better way that works. I'm keeping my "cookied" sites in the normal browser window and using incognito for any random sites. The only issue I'm really having is that google searches in incognito are requiring me to select all the traffic lights before it'll do anything - it really doesn't seem to like not knowing anything about me.If you use it only for the sites where you want the cookies deleted.
Edited by LeoSayer on Thursday 6th August 05:52
juice said:
Have you tried cookiebro ?
I have, It works partially. For reasons it refuses to recognise Discord cookies despite basically force-feeding them to it.@ Ian, I am puzzled by how that is apparently working for you but it deletes them upon close for me. When you first open your browser and go to chrome://settings/content/all , are those the only 3 items in the list ?
Tisy said:
I have, It works partially. For reasons it refuses to recognise Discord cookies despite basically force-feeding them to it.
@ Ian, I am puzzled by how that is apparently working for you but it deletes them upon close for me. When you first open your browser and go to chrome://settings/content/all , are those the only 3 items in the list ?
Yeah, it does show other domains, but those only contain youtube cookies.@ Ian, I am puzzled by how that is apparently working for you but it deletes them upon close for me. When you first open your browser and go to chrome://settings/content/all , are those the only 3 items in the list ?
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