this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2024
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Browsers should start enabling deleting every data from any website other than explicitly allowed ones by default.
I've been using CAD (Cookie-AutoDelete) to do exactly that:
https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete
Edit: I'm well aware that FireFox/Chrome support this natively, but with this I can share my exclusion rules between browsers and devices, albeit with manual import/exports.
On my iPhone, I use Firefox Focus as my default browser. It deletes all cookies after every session!
Firefox and Chromium do support what this extension does natively.
White listing cookies is the way to go. Everything else just gets deleted after a few seconds.
Sadly this doesn't stop fingerprinting, though it does make it a bit more difficult.
You can do that for sure in firefox, but it will break some sites, especially any that needs some kind of login or settings.