Reviews for Cookie AutoDelete
Cookie AutoDelete by CAD Team
Response by k3nny5
Developer response
posted 4 years agoWe cannot simply have read-only access to certain browser settings like global cookie behaviours, unless we request for the privacy API, which allows read AND write of certain settings. We only recently implemented a workaround for the detection of firstPartyIsolation that removes the privacy API permission request.
In any case if you disable the cookies then you probably wouldn't need this extension in the first place. We don't enable anything on our own (with the exception of containers as by default any extension that requests the 'contextualidentities' API automatically forces Firefox to enable it (this is a browser 'feature') and this permission cannot be made optional yet).
That being said, however, if you did enable any of the 'other browsing data' cleanup options, then we would create our OWN internal cookie for it. This goes through the Cookie API so I suppose that bypasses whatever you have set (maybe it is a Firefox 'feature')? The reason, as mentioned many times as well as in documentation, is that only cookies can be enumerated for domains, while the other browsing site data types either require that we already know the domain to clean beforehand, or a specific timeframe to remove the data from (e.g. An hour ago, a day ago, all) which is not what this extension does so that is out of the question.
We cannot access the browser internal cookie manager (the one for block/allow for session) as there is no API for it (at least on Firefox) so you'll still need to manually configure the expression through our extension, otherwise the default behaviour of removing cookie(s) if no other tabs with that domain is open will apply. With our own internal cookie being cleaned it then triggers the cleanup for the other browsing types.
This is better off as a support issue as it allows for better commenting and discussion without having to edit the original post much.
Please open a support issue through our GitHub repo for discussion.
https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/issues/new/choose
In any case if you disable the cookies then you probably wouldn't need this extension in the first place. We don't enable anything on our own (with the exception of containers as by default any extension that requests the 'contextualidentities' API automatically forces Firefox to enable it (this is a browser 'feature') and this permission cannot be made optional yet).
That being said, however, if you did enable any of the 'other browsing data' cleanup options, then we would create our OWN internal cookie for it. This goes through the Cookie API so I suppose that bypasses whatever you have set (maybe it is a Firefox 'feature')? The reason, as mentioned many times as well as in documentation, is that only cookies can be enumerated for domains, while the other browsing site data types either require that we already know the domain to clean beforehand, or a specific timeframe to remove the data from (e.g. An hour ago, a day ago, all) which is not what this extension does so that is out of the question.
We cannot access the browser internal cookie manager (the one for block/allow for session) as there is no API for it (at least on Firefox) so you'll still need to manually configure the expression through our extension, otherwise the default behaviour of removing cookie(s) if no other tabs with that domain is open will apply. With our own internal cookie being cleaned it then triggers the cleanup for the other browsing types.
This is better off as a support issue as it allows for better commenting and discussion without having to edit the original post much.
Please open a support issue through our GitHub repo for discussion.
https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/issues/new/choose
1,471 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18750384, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by xia, 5 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by SK, 15 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18714763, 24 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by grisfer, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by HxoR, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14956360, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by BZ, 3 months agoAbandoned Extension; no updates in over a year and a half. Very hard to sync across devices if you use Container Tabs. Doesn't seem to be compatible with recent Firefox cookie changes; I found dozens of unexpected cookies which were not autodeleted.
- Rated 5 out of 5by uzaylul, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12774647, 3 months agoNo longer works, save your time. Unfortunately there is no way to 'Automatically delete unwanted cookies from your closed tabs while keeping the ones you want' as there are no controls or drop down menus available. Extension last updated 2 years ago.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 5584905, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15095017, 4 months agoWhat a dumb interface. You need to make it LOUD & CLEAR what each button does. I just erased all the cookies for all of my website logins ever because the stupid drop-down menu of the "Clean" button decided to wipe out everything and not just the cookies for the site I was on. Stupid. Nowhere in any app/ext/software is something that detrimental so easy to do with the click-of-a-button, for good reason. There was no warning at all. Clearing the cookies for the current site should stand alone as it's the most common function for the average user, period. Not an opinion.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Andrii, 4 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Sleeping Reaver, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by CCP養的LittlePink, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by island_in_the_sun, 4 months agoIt's so quiet here ;) No more annoying "click me" screaming Cookie banners. Love it!
I use it with "I still don't care about cookies", so I don't even have to worry being followed on my cookie crumb trail... - Rated 5 out of 5by igorlogius, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by folgoris, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15471904, 5 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by AcecardflipsHatsdownmix, 5 months agoI am very sorry to say your addon sketches up an autodelete operation set up within settings, then the simulation goes further into popping up a notification saying cookies were cleaned, but then I use another method of cookies detection and I find them all there, tens of them and i clear them manually myself. I had to remove your mind manipulation scheme. Thank you for the big show. At least your addon knew to say is active and collecting my data.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Moejoe, 5 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Cnuss, 5 months agoSatisfait de cette application sous windows, mais malheureusement, il n'est pas possible d'importer les réglages sous windows sur mon téléphone android : soit le fichier .json est grisé et non utilisable, soit il est utilisable mais l'import échoue ...
- Rated 1 out of 5by zeblur, 7 months agoNot work recently. When I left steam, etc., cookies were not cleared. This is not safe for me.