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I'm so fed up of these cookie popups requiring a few extra clicks to reject, are there any extensions that will automatically opt out or reject additional cookies?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can change your settings within firefox to dump all cookies on exit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

True, but there are some I want to keep. It'd be nice to tell the browser which sites cookies are ok to keep.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not exactly what I'm after, but thanks for the reply anyway

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Allowing cookies enables sites to gather information about you. If you delete cookies, they still got this information. Especially as there are ad tracking providers tra tracking you by mail and so on