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How to prevent websites from tracking you (all browsers) (lemmy.today)
submitted 3 months ago* by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Use a vpn with a Eu server. More sites like google will show a cookie popup with the "reject all cookies" option.

Reject all cookies if it exists. Otherwise accept cookies and then click on the :

shield icon > cookies and site data > delete (trash icon)

This is super useful when you want to read an article on some news website and it shows a cookie popup.

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[–] 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There are so few sites that should leave a cookie I just set it to purge everything on browser close, and then make exceptions for the ones who actually should leave a cookie.

Pretty sure every browser now has the option to dump all the data when it closes.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    I would do that but I want to stay logged in on some websites like lichess.

    The login scene is so terrible nowadays with 2fa, passkeys etc. It's not as easy as just remembering a password or using a simple password manager.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Just whitelist the ones you want to keep. Pretty sure Firefox now let's you whitelist, I use a plug in because I've been doing it that way for years (ie before ff had the option)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

    Wait, foxfire does it natively now? I’ve been installing cookie autodelete for years

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I assumed you meant the whitelisting not the autodelete - cookie autodelete on close has been in FF for years, but some time recently they brought in whitelisting as well - go to settings, privacy and security, cookies and site data, manage exceptions

    Might be worth deleting CAD and use the inbuilt option to reduce canvas fingerprinting

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