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Re:We found and fixed a rare race condition in our session h... by chrisandchris on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:39AM (#26512571)
Personal opinion: Clear cookies every time you stop the browser process, which basically is at least once a day.

Logs you out of all services. It‘s a nightmare as a user, but I don‘t want to stick those tracking to cookies around longer than a single day.

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Re:We found and fixed a rare race condition in our session h... by XCSme on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:59PM (#26519793)
If your concern is tracking, clearing the cookies doesn't help much. Next day you will login on the same services and websites that you logged before, and if they share data with 3rd parties they will keep sharing it, with or without cookies.
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Re:We found and fixed a rare race condition in our session h... by SamuelAdams on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:45AM (#26512619)
Firefox can do this automatically. Options > Privacy & Security > check the box "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed".

Anything you intentionally want to retain can be added to the exceptions list.

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Re:We found and fixed a rare race condition in our session h... by fsckboy on Friday March 19, 2021 @02:32PM (#26516827)
"Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed" has always bothered me; it should be "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is opened", because abnormal termination is not "closing", and you'd still want the cookies deleted when you start up again.
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Re:We found and fixed a rare race condition in our session h... by motiejus on Friday March 19, 2021 @03:30PM (#26517375)
That way I'd lose the GDPR opt-outs from the number of sites I've gone through the process.

Perhaps I should just accept the consent and remove cookies regularly, instead of being careful with the consent forms... Hmm, good idea.

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Re:We found and fixed a rare race condition in our session h... by jjav on Friday March 19, 2021 @05:01PM (#26518121)
Yes, for sure. I use cookie autodelete to remove all cookies as soon as the tab is closed, so nothing lingers.
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