[airstrike]

I vaguely remember using a Firefox extension a long time ago that allowed one to whitelist / sticky a handful of domains that would be spared from the usual "delete every cookie", giving the user a renewed sense of control over what the web knows about them.

Nowadays with online fingerprinting¹ this may amount to nothing more than placebo, but I do miss it.

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1. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/now-s...

[lucb1e]

Called self-destructing cookies. It broke with web extensions and cannot be replaced (like many other add-ons I use) because the web extension APIs to provide the functionality do not exist. I'm still on Firefox 55 though, so I can still use it (like firegestures, quickjava, no close buttons, vertical tabs, and others that are labeled as legacy).

I always find it very creepy when I looked something up on someone else's laptop and use it again half a year later, only to find that it remembers my last visit and (for example) centers the map where I last left it. I'm so used to having things be cleaned up against tracking, I don't even really experience what the web is like these days.

[ealhad]

> cannot be replaced

Or can it?

https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...

[lucb1e]

Ah, they did finally implement an API for localStorage then. Good to see!

That just leaves hiding the tab bar, gestures that work in all windows (e.g. also in the view-source URL windows) and that work before the target page has loaded, etc.

[ealhad]

Right. And maybe it should be done before supporting VR.

[severine]

Happy user of Cookie Autodelete here, I agree it is a good replacement.