Posted by Wahaha in AskRamble

Aren't 99% of cookies completely useless to end users? I'm using the "Cookie Auto-Delete" extension to only keep cookies that are beneficial and don't see any downside to this.

There was/is this complete inane EU cookie law, when it would have been so much easier to just force browser vendors to delete cookies and have users whitelist the ones they want.

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div1337 wrote

Yes that's right, they are 99% useless to end users. That's a good idea actually, browsers should really have better cookie management feature

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Kalchaya wrote

There are no 'good' cookies. Only those some are fooled into thinking are useful to themselves....but are always far more useful to others. I have Self-Destructing Cookies on my Firefox-deriative browsers, Cookinator on auto, then always back that up with BleachBit and CCleaner prior to turning off the PC.

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Wahaha OP wrote

I kinda like the cookies that keep me logged in to websites I use frequently. Or the ones saving some layout choices, like dark mode.

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Kalchaya wrote

Everything is pretty much a cost-benefit ratio....in this case, convenience vs inconvenience. I have no problem logging into sites in order to maintain a cookie-free PC. Well, so far as I can make it cookie-free. There is only so much Self-Destructing Cookies, BleachBit, and CCleaner will do.

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