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Re:Facebook Container Extension by Mozilla Firefox by aendruk on Thursday January 19, 2023 @02:03AM (#34437508)
The key insight for me was that persistence should be opt-in—when I want a website to remember me, I take action to express that—the opposite of the current norm.

I sometimes wonder whether Google was strategically preempting this paradigm when they mainstreamed ephemeral sessions under the framing of sneaky mode.

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Re:Facebook Container Extension by Mozilla Firefox by hgsgm on Thursday January 19, 2023 @01:33PM (#34443756)
The vast majority of people find persistent sessions convenient.

If you don't want cookies, you can turn them off for all sites (with exceptions) or for some sites.

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Re:Facebook Container Extension by Mozilla Firefox by aendruk on Thursday January 19, 2023 @02:10PM (#34444279)
rejecting cookies ≠ giving them a short lifetime

Cookies aren’t inherently bad. If a second party asks me to hold on to something while I’m actively engaged with it, that’s typically fine. At the end of the day, though, I’m deciding what to take home.

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