Feature-Suggestion: Cookie-Shielding
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Hi all,
A lot of websites are preventing you from using its features when you don't accept cookies. While at the same time advertising trackers are using cookies to track your browsing across different websites. In these days I consider the simple options to 'disallow all', 'allow all', 'allow only from website' as a little bit outdated. Also in times where you only reboot your PC or restart your browser once a week, the option to delete cookies on browser-exit seems a little bit like not doing it's job any more.
So I came up with an idea:
Why don't you delete the cookies when you close the tab that created them?And also with another idea:
Why don't you shield all cookies created by one tab (or optional by one website (in meanings of same SLD)) (including the third-party cookies) against access from other tabs/websites?Dear Vivaldi Community, what do you think about these Feature Ideas?
(cookie containers / cookie shielding and delete-on-tab-close)Best regards,
Rhino -
Such functions were probably already asked, something can be done via chromium page but.. it's not very confortable.
Personally, I use vanilla cookie manager extension, in which I whitelist the cookies I want keep (via urlbar) and remove the others ones (blacklist by default) every vivaldi start-up. It can remove also at shutdown or every "x" minutes the ones in blacklist.
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I have set Vivaldi to reject all cookies and explicitly whitelist the domains I accept cookies from.
It's a bit of a chore, especially if having to setup a new installation, but worth it. Not that I am in tinfoil-hat-wearing land, just I don't want sites saving a zillion cookies on my PC. However, if there's a site I want to use and actually log in to, I see no need to be paranoid about cookies from these sites.
However, a good idea I think to add would be a Temporarily accept cookies from domain xyzzy.com feature. And that these cookies would be erased either on browser close, tab close, or after a certain time.
There are some sites that don't work properly without accepting cookies, and while I don't want to permanently accept these cookies, I need to accept them to make the site work. Like some sites pop-up the bloody EU cookie-warning over and over.
In Firefox I use the "Cookie Monster" addon and I can right-click on the page and choose to temporarily accept cookies from the domain, and then don't have to worry about deleting them later.
I think something similar would be a great addition to Vivaldi.