Allow Third-party Cookies for Specific Websites
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@jane-n Yeah, that works. Thanks. This is a decent solution, i.e. per site and not too many clicks to enact.
I was under the misapprehension that those cookies were blocked first-party cookies, but I see now that automatically blocked third-party cookies are there, too.
Thanks once again.
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@jane-n Alas that doesn't seem to work for me in Google Drive when I'm running Vivaldi on the Pop! OS version of Linux. I have to click on the manage cookies link and then scroll down and allow 3rd party cookies before the file will actually download. Bug maybe?
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@Gwen-Dragon Thanks for the quick response.
I had already added drive.google.com to the allowed list but it still wasn't working for me even after reloading Vivaldi. I then added what you suggested and that didn't work for me either. So I deleted the original drive.google.com entry and then added it back making certain to check the 3rd party cookies box, too. Now its working from my google drive.
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@mib2berlin Does that work for allowing third-party cookies? I thought it shouldn't, according to Google:
Important: If you block third-party cookies, all cookies and site data from other sites will be blocked, even if the site is allowed on your exceptions list. [1]
So it looks like this allow list is for always allowing first-party cookies for specific sites, if first-party cookies are set to be blocked or cleared for exit. Third-party cookie blocking shouldn't care about the exception list.
But it looks like the allow list actually works to allow those domains to act as 3rd party domains, as @ianmacd also confirmed. Am I misunderstanding the Google help page or is Vivaldi's implementation somehow different? Even more confusingly, in the UI that @jane.n mentions, it says "The following cookies were blocked (third-party cookies are being blocked without exception)", but when I add them to the list of exceptions, they stop being blocked! Either I am missing something or this is a bug.
As an example, I found a website that uses two third-party cookies and added one of them as an exception:
Though good for those who want to allow third-party cookies on specific sites; in my case this is disappointing as I wanted something that performed the intended function: I wanted to set all first-party cookies to Block Cookies or to Clear when Exited (i.e. Session Only), and allow persistent first-party cookies only on specific websites (and block third-party cookies at all times). But it looks like if I do that, the websites that I whitelist for first-party cookies will have third-party cookie permissions as well, which I absolutely do not want.
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Is the whitelist synced between devices?
