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I often think that instead of completely blocking cookies, it would be better to accept them and then throw them away. Same with localStorage. Just store it temporarily.
"Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed"
I often think that instead of completely blocking cookies, it would be better to accept them and then throw them away. Same with localStorage. Just store it temporarily.
Well, I've reacted to the article with an "of course, the Google's browser breaks everything if you try to block tracking". There is absolutely no reason for letting the javascript know that you've blocked some functionality. It just adds new tracking. Anyway, the sensible thing to do is to store the values for the lifetime of the page. Simply throwing them away can be an option, but it's a bad default. Non ad based…
An editor warning you that your work hasn’t been saved?
I always use a wrapper around local/session storage[1] to avoid this problem. Then you have your app sync settings with storage, never read from it except during startup. It becomes impossible to implement basic UI features like remembering open panes, etc when storage is disabled though. With the current policies around cookies - no cross-domain reads, Safari's ITP - there is no real need to turn them off for privac…
Basic UI features shouldn't need storage. In-memory or in the URL is enough. If you put it in storage then it is actually a (cookie) session, with some sort of configuration - that's not "basic UI".
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> Aside from that, what the heck is so important that folks need to cookie that can't be just tied to the session token in the backend? literally any functionality that needs to persist state and you want to use offline and between reloads? See also Progressive Web Apps (PWAs).
You can store the state in the URL, can you not? That used to be done anyhow.
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I’ve been using Cookie AutoDelete for that purpose for the last few years. It works flawlessly for me and brings me comfort in knowing that I am only being tracked online by my browser fingerprint and IP. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...
One thing worth noting: at least when I installed it, the auto clean functionality (the bit that actually removes the cookie/etc data) is disabled by default. This means it needs configuration to actually do anything aside from manual cleaning.
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"Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed"
Yes, this is the way. Only issue is needing to login to everything again on restart/reboot, but it's a small price to pay.
This worked fine, but now that firefox just containerizes third party resources rather than actually blocking the cookies, so there's no longer a way to detect that the actual site cookies just aren't being delivered in a third party context, rather than not present without user agent sniffing.
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Well, I've reacted to the article with an "of course, the Google's browser breaks everything if you try to block tracking". There is absolutely no reason for letting the javascript know that you've blocked some functionality. It just adds new tracking. Anyway, the sensible thing to do is to store the values for the lifetime of the page. Simply throwing them away can be an option, but it's a bad default. Non ad based…
> absolutely no reason An editor warning you that your work hasn’t been saved?
Or a game warning you that your progress will be lost.
There must be tons of legit use cases.
I often think that instead of completely blocking cookies, it would be better to accept them and then throw them away. Same with localStorage. Just store it temporarily.
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> Aside from that, what the heck is so important that folks need to cookie that can't be just tied to the session token in the backend? literally any functionality that needs to persist state and you want to use offline and between reloads? See also Progressive Web Apps (PWAs).
You can store the state in the URL, can you not? That used to be done anyhow.