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by propogandist 3268 days ago
vanilla cookies in Chrome allows quick cookie clearing (one click) and you can customize rules to save specific cookies. Self Destructing Cookies on FF is fantastic also.
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I use this [1] -- it's great. I have it set to delete any cookies not on the whitelist 30 minutes after last set. That way I can log into a site that's not on the whitelist and do something and after I've stopped using for 30 mins I'm logged out and cookies deleted. However - it's not perfect. It doesn't delete local storage, local databases, or Flashâ„¢ storage. There is a nest of Chromium issues [2] needed to be resolved to make this work. It looks like the most recent related work was done Sep 2016 [3] so maybe there's some hope, even though the issues have been open for 5+ years. Of course I have the option of working on it myself but having looked at the 5-10 related issues I think it would take quite some time to develop an understanding of all the APIs.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vanilla-cookie-man...

[2] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=78093

[3] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=589586...