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RossoVivaldi

Hi,

Today I've installed Vivaldi for Windows and I like it and love UI design, features, and have love to use it a lot. I check out the IMDb website too much and need my account in there to stay log-in without logging out when I exit and close Vivaldi.

I've tried Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies > Saved Cookies and IMDB's cookies are saved in there, but when I close the Vivaldi and open IMDb website, I have to log in to its account again.

Maybe I should do something else in Vivaldi settings that I don't know. How can I set this for just IMDb website (and maybe a few websites for later) to its account and stay log-in when I clear all cookies and exit Vivaldi without I have to sing in again and again?

Security and Privacy is important for me and I prefer all cookies clear in each session and when I exit the browser, but this exception.

Thank you in advanced

mib2berlin

@RossoVivaldi
Hi, Chromium browser does not support a cookie whitelist, so do Vivaldi. It´s one of the things you need an extension for.

Cheers, mib

bariton

@RossoVivaldi I don't know how IMDb handles to stay logged in during browser restart.
But you could use Cookie AutoDelete to manage keeping and deleting cookies and other site data when closing tabs or the browser. It allows you to set white lists for URLs that are kept.
Find it here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookie-autodelete/fhcgjolkccmbidfldomjliifgaodjagh

mib2berlin

@bariton @RossoVivaldi
Hi, I forgot to mention that some cookie extensions cause issues in Vivaldi, no idea about Cookie AutoDelete, iirc it called Cookie AfterDelete.

Cheers, mib

RossoVivaldi

@bariton Installed Cookie Auto Delete and put IMDb's address in the whitelist, then sign in to IMDb and close Vivaldi, back to IMDb, but I've signed out from my account.

bariton

Did you use "imdb.com" in the white list? No www...
It might use something like "account.imdb.com" or such, I don't know.
Log in, press Ctrl-F12, search for "cook" and take a look which cookies are set.

If else, someone who knows imdb account handling pls help.

derDay

@mib2berlin @RossoVivaldi

uhm, of course chromium has a whitelist, I use it since years.
but you have to block all cookies at chrome://settings/cookies and there you can whitelist domains like [*.]imdb.com

RossoVivaldi

@bariton Also I add "http://account.imdb.com/" to the CAD's whitelist, didn't work.

RossoVivaldi

@derDay "Block All" option is enabled, but where's whitelist option to add in Vivaldi? If you meant on the CAD's whitelist add-on, I tried, but didn't work.

derDay

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RossoVivaldi

@derDay The screenshot is for Vivaldi? Mine is different. Also I can't understand the language your screenshot options.

paul1149

@RossoVivaldi said in Clear all cookies, except one site to stay logged in for next times.:

@bariton Also I add "http://account.imdb.com/" to the CAD's whitelist, didn't work.

I don't use CAD, but from looking at its store page you must add the domain, not the address, to the whitelist. Thus: *.imdb.com

derDay

@RossoVivaldi
I described the way above

you have to block all cookies at chrome://settings/cookies and there you can whitelist domains like [*.]imdb.com

that's the chromium interface which differs from the settings from vivaldi.
insert chrome://settings/cookies into your adressbar (don't wonder, it changes to vivaldi://settings/cookies) and then you can use the settings from the screenshot above

paul1149

BTW, I hadn't visited imdb in at least a week, with many browser closings and restarts, and I just went there and was still logged in, even to the point of being able to edit my account there.

RossoVivaldi

@derDay Yes, it works. but when I back to log in here to write a reply, got an error message and couldn't log in to this forum, it asked to enable cookies, so I had to back to the default settings. Block All cookies makes some conflicts for visiting and logging.

Pathduck

OK couple things here:

If you set Cookies to "Session Only" whatever you do in CookieAutodelete/Vanilla/SiteBleacher won't matter - the cookies will still be deleted on browser close. The browser settings override any extension settings.
If you want to use extensions for a whitelist, set Vivaldi to Accept = All. Then the extension will take care of cookies when tabs are closed.
If you add [*.]imdb.com to "Sites that can always use cookies" under chrome://settings/cookies, then cookies+site data from imdb.com will not be deleted on browser close.
However (addendum to the above point), if you also use an extension to clear cookies on tab close, and have not whitelisted *.imdb.com in the extension - cookies will still be deleted on tab close (which is probably not what you want).
Basically, use an extension OR use the chrome://settings/cookies page - do NOT use both unless you know what you're doing.
I recommend using chrome://settings/cookies to add sites you want to allow 3rd-party cookies from. I.e. add [*.]disqus.com if you want to use Disqus comments on other sites, while still blocking all other 3rd-party cookies.
I recommend adding chrome://settings/cookies to the web panels for easy access.

So, that clear things up? I hope so, can't really express myself any clearer

RossoVivaldi

This time I enter these below addresses in CAD's whitelist and it worked, without using chrome://settings/cookies or disabling all cookies.

*.imdb.com
/(^|.)imdb\.com/
imdb.com
subdomain.imdb.com

Pathduck

@RossoVivaldi Why on earth make it so complicated?

Once you enable CAD's Auto-clean, it will delete all cookies+site data after tab close (depending on the cleanup options set).

I recommend not enabling Cache cleanup in CAD - cache is useful.

derDay

@RossoVivaldi said

Block All cookies makes some conflicts for visiting and logging.

of course you have to whitelist every website that should persist a browser restart. but that's one time work
but you got very good hints from @Pathduck