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Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls

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Re: Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls

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Post by michaelmrose »

renewiltord wrote: post #197
yccs27 wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Settings vs dev tools does make a huge difference imo. The settings pane gives you a cleaner ui for quick changes (debatable, but I certainly feel this way). Dev tools can break your browser if you do things wrong. They are made for development and deep changes, not routine stuff. That is not "nothing has changed".

It is still in 'Settings', guys. It's in chrome://settings/content/all instead of chrome://settings/siteData . Read the third and fourth sentences of the linked article. You will literally be able to browse to it in Settings. I do have to commend you on the bold tone while being so misleading, though. Haha, good stuff. I propose a Law of Increasing Internet Indignation: indignation is a monotonically decreasing funct…

Regarding renewiltord's law.

Physician heal thyself.

> If you click the disclosure triangle for one of the entries, you see… well, basically nothing about the site data. And there are no delete buttons for individual cookies. The only button is "Clear data", an all or nothing option.

Site guidelines suggest that you ought to assume good faith on the part of your conversational partners and responsd courteously to the good faith interpretation of their words.

I suggest you have simply misunderstood what people are complaining about.

Re: Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls

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Post by ashtonkem »

tehwebguy wrote: post #3

> By the way, before anyone runs off and yells "Switch to Safari" or something like that, keep in mind that Safari is actually in a worse state and doesn't have detailed cookie and site information at all. It does, but it's split between two places. You can see a list of all sites that have stored data in Preferences > Privacy > Manage Website Data... (no option to view here, just delete). You can also navigate to th…

Safari is also generally trending in the right way, while Chrome is headed in the wrong way.

Re: Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls

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Post by theo-born »

I mean, if you have Firefox with Temporary Containers addon installed you won't ever have to care about cookie management at all.

Every time I have to use a browser without containers, I feel so exposed knowing how much tracking and telemetry is out there. It's like going out without using deodorant, thats the best way to put it.

Re: Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls

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Post by commoner »

etc-hosts wrote: post #203
m0zg wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They also run the only decent, independent search engine that has _its own_, _uncensored_ index. DDG was perceptibly worse than Google, but Brave Search is about on par, and the latency seems to be better as well. I maybe have to go to Google once or twice a month now instead of several times a day DDG would require. I know a bit about Google search, and frankly I'm stunned by what Brave was able to pull off here. I'…

> I'm actually not against Firefox either, but they refuse to implement a profile switcher https://davemartorana.com/multifirefox/

Alternatively, Profile Switcher for Firefox provides a Chrome-like interface:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc...

Re: Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls

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Post by missblit »

yccs27 wrote: post #150
renewiltord wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right, so clear all the cookies for the gov site. Previously you could do that and now you can do that. Nothing has changed for this use case.

Settings vs dev tools does make a huge difference imo. The settings pane gives you a cleaner ui for quick changes (debatable, but I certainly feel this way). Dev tools can break your browser if you do things wrong. They are made for development and deep changes, not routine stuff. That is not "nothing has changed".

Hmm, I've never had devtools break my browser despite using it fairly extensively. I think I confused myself once by forgetting about a local override I had turned on, or accidentally cleared more cookies than I intended to, but that's about it.

I have had locally compiled builds break my profile data once or twice, but that's a seperate issue.

Re: Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls

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Post by derefr »

Anyone here ever wanted a UI outside of the Devtools for deleting individual keys out of a site’s localStorage?

No? Didn’t think so.

If this individual-cookies-manager settings page didn’t already exist, would you think it worth it to introduce one? More worth it than an individual-localStorage-keys-manager (which clearly nobody is scrabbling for)? If so, why?

Re: Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls

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Post by livindub »

yccs27 wrote: post #150
renewiltord wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right, so clear all the cookies for the gov site. Previously you could do that and now you can do that. Nothing has changed for this use case.

Settings vs dev tools does make a huge difference imo. The settings pane gives you a cleaner ui for quick changes (debatable, but I certainly feel this way). Dev tools can break your browser if you do things wrong. They are made for development and deep changes, not routine stuff. That is not "nothing has changed".

You can still delete per site cookies in the preferences no?
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