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Re:Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically by saurik on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @08:39PM (#35622639)
Sure, but the vast majority of websites where I see these cookie prompts aren't even websites I'm logging in to in the first place... often they are websites I am not sure you can even log into at all. I get that if I want some kind of fine-grained cookie handling for websites that are legitimately using cookies for something I need to rely on them, but that initial "do I want this site to get cookies at all?" is almost always "no" and I should not have to rely on them for it.
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Re:Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically by xmodem on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @09:05PM (#35622859)
Yeah, it would be nice if I could quickly and easily toggle cookies (and local storage, etc) on/off per site.
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Re:Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically by stanleydrew on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @12:28AM (#35624246)
This is pretty "easy" in Chrome, at least for a definition of "easy" that I'm comfortable with.

For more than ten years I've had all cookies turned off by default in Chrome's site settings, and I click two buttons when visiting a site if I want to allow it to store data on my machine. That allowlist is persistent so I don't have to think about it again.

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Re:Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically by Vinnl on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @04:43AM (#35625867)
In Firefox the Cookie Autodelete and Temporary Containers extensions are two options for that.
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Re:Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically by pwg on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @09:25PM (#35623101)
> Sure, but the vast majority of websites where I see these cookie prompts aren't even websites I'm logging in to in the first place... often they are websites I am not sure you can even log into at all.

Cookies for managing login's are explicitly allowed by the GDPR. If you get a cookie choice prompt when visiting a website, it is an indication that the site is placing "advertising/tracking" cookies, for which the GDPR does require consent.

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