2mo ago

How can I efficiently delete all cookies, continuously, except certain session cookies in certain specific containers ?

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

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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
- 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.)
They really missed an opportunity to call the containers Jars
Hi, I try to have something a bit like you.
I use temporary-containers with the firefox multi-account-containers and it's working pretty well!
And of course I delete cookies when a container is close.
Hope that’s help :)
- And this allows you to keep the session cookies only, only in the specified containers, even after restarting the browser ? If so can you explain how you keep the session cookies and how did you create per-container per-cookie whitelist to preserve only the session cookies or a single website ?
  
  What about the new profile feature being rolled out with 138, profile for each of sites different login.
  
  Hi, actually I don't think that's possible!
  But I see that you have a lot of answers :)
i use cookie autodelete and the containers for the websites i that i know are harvesting/selling my data.
it works well for me so it makes me wonder how it's tedious or buggy for you,
- I second this. Can be set to deletes cookies on XYZ (any or all) domain after ABC seconds after tab close.
I auto delete all history after 28 days but I keep tabs open for sites like this that I'm logged into so those cookies aren't deleted because the history is never that old
Not sure if I fully follow what you want. But for my use case, I have something similar with cookie auto delete extension and container tabs.
The extension (not firefox) is set to auto delete everything by default. And then I can add a website-container pair to the extension's allow list and it just works
The only difference I can think of is that I don't bother with individual cookies, rather within the container, all the cookies from the particular website are allowed
- Last I checked cookie auto delete I was not able to set say preserve cookies for example.com and only in the example container. Are you sure if you go in another container, those cookies will get deleted ?
  Here is an example page
  And I think for facebook the session cookies are
  
  c_user datr
  
  In the settings for CAD, there's a checkbox to enable support for container tabs. Have you selected that? It's under extension options
- I have a password manager, it is still over 8 steps per login.
Have you tried two browsers?
One browser for logins that doesn't auto delete data when closed.
My second browser deletes everything, except bookmarks, when I close it.
- Yes, I am considering using multiple portable instances of waterfox for this exact purpose. I think my final solution will be a mix of many different methods of containment and parrallel instances.

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