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Ashleyj
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Per site cookie control

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Years ago (before the change in the way add-ons worked) I used an add-on called Cookie Monster that allowed you to determine what cookies a particular site was allowed to set. It was great as you could - with the click of a button - allow or disallow 1st and 3rd party cookies for the site you were viewing.

These days it seems that all you get is a blanket setting in Firefox to allow all or block 3rd part cookies, or you have to jump through hoops and create rules for each and every site.

So what I am asking is if anyone knows of a quick and easy way of controlling the use of cookies for individual sites.
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Hi,
I don't use any type of Cookie Manager but there are quite a few available...
Perhaps if you tried one or two?
Addons > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... ent=search
Here are a couple from that page...
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... ger-popup/
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... %20manager
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Ashleyj
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LIMPET235 wrote:Hi,
I don't use any type of Cookie Manager but there are quite a few available...
Perhaps if you tried one or two?
Addons > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... ent=search
Here are a couple from that page...
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... ger-popup/
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... %20manager
Thanks. I have looked at most of those on the Add-ons site, but all they seem to do is let you manage (i.e. delete) the cookies that sites have already stored within Firefox.

With the old Cookie Monster you could have it set to block all cookies, but then if you wished a particular site to be allowed to set a cookie (to remember a log-in for example) all you needed to do was click on the toolbar icon and select the relevant option - a bit like how NoScript works with scripts.
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This is the closest to Cookie Monster that I tried...not sure if it meets your requirement. (I used both CookieBro with uMatrix to manage cookies.)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... ent=search
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Ashleyj wrote:Years ago (before the change in the way add-ons worked) I used an add-on called Cookie Monster that allowed you to determine what cookies a particular site was allowed to set. It was great as you could - with the click of a button - allow or disallow 1st and 3rd party cookies for the site you were viewing.

These days it seems that all you get is a blanket setting in Firefox to allow all or block 3rd part cookies, or you have to jump through hoops and create rules for each and every site.

So what I am asking is if anyone knows of a quick and easy way of controlling the use of cookies for individual sites.

Ashleyj--way back when I used cookie monster also

right now I use cookie auto delete--one of the things I like about it is it has a white and grey list, which works really well. might give it a look see.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... ent=search
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StyxKee wrote:This is the closest to Cookie Monster that I tried...not sure if it meets your requirement. (I used both CookieBro with uMatrix to manage cookies.)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... ent=search
Thanks, I will take a look.
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bob c wrote:Ashleyj--way back when I used cookie monster also right now I use cookie auto delete--one of the things I like about it is it has a white and grey list, which works really well. might give it a look see.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... ent=search
Thanks, I will take a look.
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Re: Per site cookie control

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Had a look at both of those add-ons but, sadly, neither do quite what I'm looking for.

Cookiebro seems to be the closest to what I am looking for but I need to play with it some more to see if I can tune it to do what I want.
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