Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls

Re:Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data con... by JeremyNT on Friday September 03, 2021 @06:48PM (#28410313)

It's a self fulfilling prophecy. Make a useful feature difficult to discover, then remove it when few people discover it. The (not insignificant) current barrier for normal users to selectively remove cookies will be made even higher if you ask them to use dev tools.

One could imagine a browser vendor who made this workflow easy because they thought it was in the users' best interest. Obviously, that browser vendor is not Google.

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Re:Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data con... by arthur2e5 on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:26PM (#28411823)

I recall being quite pissed when Chrome decided to remove the pick-character-encoding feature essential for digging through archives of older CJK sites. Odd things keep rolling out of the Chrome team with telemetry as their justification. Ah well, how am I supposed to argue against “data”?

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Re:Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data con... by p_j_w on Friday September 03, 2021 @06:51PM (#28410330)

>Make a useful feature difficult to discover, then remove it when few people discover it.

How many people do you really think would ever need this feature in day to day use, even if it were extremely easy to find? The number is probably vanishingly small.

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Re:Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data con... by ipaddr on Friday September 03, 2021 @07:30PM (#28410593)

Millions. Big world out there

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Re:Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data con... by p_j_w on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @11:08AM (#28445792)

Percentages are all that really matter here.

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