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by jlkinsel 4900 days ago
Does CookiesOK do any type of moderation over the cookies? Checking for domain scope, cookie flags, reasonable expiration of the cookie?

I understand that "free" sites need advertising revenue, and unfortunately a lot of ad networks want to track my every move - how about enforcing a compromise where cookies are allowed for X minutes after I hit the page?

Security-wise, I'm more interested in enforcing that cookies sent over SSL are not readable via standard HTTP. This tool is a step in the right direction, but I think a few more features would make it pretty attractive.

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> Does CookiesOK do any type of moderation over the cookies? Checking for domain scope, cookie flags, reasonable expiration of the cookie?

Based the "how does it work" section of their site, I don't think it does any sort of moderation/validation/inspection of cookies before trying to auto-click the consent button. My impression is that it's strictly a DOM-level utility and doesn't hook in at the network level where it could observe or manipulate cookies over the wire.