I need fine grained, automated cookie controls I have tried these addons
Cookie Manager Cookie Quick Manager Cookie AutoDelete
And the problem is always the same.
It is TOO DIFFICULT to only have one exception for one cookie in one account container
Creating containers for every single website is also extremely tedious and buggy.
And deleting all cookies all the time, means I am re-logging in into everything all the time, often a 5 to 10 step process not counting 2 factor and it is VERY annoying
i’m trying to understand your exact needs, but i’m honestly surprised cookie auto delete can’t do it.
could you explain exactly what you’re trying to accomplish? and the wall you hit with cookie auto delete to do it?
Imagine website example.com
example.com, has a overly tedious login process, with a separate pageload for the username/email and then for the password, and then the second factor and then a captcha.
Worse, I have a different example.com account for their service A, their service B and their service C
Currently, every time I restart my browser, I have to go into each account container, load example.com, login into each of the containers
Every, single, browser restart
I don’t know what the session cookies for example.com are named or if they change
I cannot really avoid using example.com, but I also don’t like them, they are a fundamental part of my workflow, they have no real competitors as they have all driven them out of business thanks to their growth hacking blitzscaling strategy.
I want to, as far as possible, delete all their cookies on an ongoing basis, except for the session cookies, not even just after browser restart but after a period of inactivity as well.
My guess is that op wants to delete all cookies except the ones that maintain login etc
cookie auto delete support white listing certain cookies for certain domains. Unless OP want a plugin that can automatically figure out what cookies are required to stay logged in for what domain which is impossible
Yes, and also on a per-container basis, because different containers have different logins to the same website As I described in the other post https://lemmy.ml/post/30131984/18621605
I think you are correct to say it is currently impossible.
Well according to chatgpt, because
Cookie AutoDelete can whitelist by domain, but not per-container.
Firefox Multi-Account Containers (MAC) don’t expose cookie APIs per container to extensions — this is a Mozilla limitation.
Session cookies (those not marked as persistent) are deleted on shutdown unless the domain is explicitly allowed to “stay logged in” (via about:preferences#privacy > Cookies & Site Data > Exceptions). But not on a per-container nor per-cookie basis, it is all or nothing. Whitelisted websites keep ALL their cookies
Lastly, there does not exist a repository of cookie rules for user to share the session cookie names on a per-website basis
In other words, there does not exist a “sponsorblock-like” equivalent but tracking and identifying in a crowdsources way, the session cookies
Cookie AutoDelete hasn’t been updated for 2+ years and, in my experience, is buggy in combination with containers.
Also, while it did delete cookies, it did not delete certain data in the user’s profile folder, still exposing all visited sites (while using Firefox’s own history tools does delete this data normally.)