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So, this cookie alert on theverge.com is both refreshingly honest and depressingly disturbing (lemmy.radio)

submitted 3 months ago by vk6flab@lemmy.radio to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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A cookie notice that seeks permission to share your details with "848 of our partners" and "actively scan device details for identification".

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[–] Nobilmantis@feddit.it 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Sadly that is not an option for firefox on android yet (while it is on desktop), the only choises you are left with are:

Use ff focus that completely resets the browser deleting every cookie in the process
Use normal ff and:

Just accept that you have to deal with cookies and care to carefully select Reject on every banner
Turn on delete data on "exit button press" (which sadly deletes everything again, with no possibility to whitelist some websites).

That said, i believe Firefox should have (even on android) their "total cookie protection" thing which puts them in separate containers for each domain, so you are somewhat protected by cookie cross-tracking, but i would still prefer to delete most of them at close.

[–] trk@aussie.zone 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sadly that is not an option for firefox on android yet

Eh?

[–] Nobilmantis@feddit.it 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was talking about there being no option to whitelist some websites to keep their cookies, and as you can see it is not present there, while the desktop versione has it

[–] trk@aussie.zone 7 points 3 months ago

Oh, right.

You could try an extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/cookiewhitelist/

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Having seem the inside of some of these trackers, I can assure you that cross-domain "protection" is a furphy. Also, 848 partners is small fries. For shits and giggles you should turn on network logging on Firefox or Chrome and open any modern news website.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Yea, 😂, I was very shocked on the amount of server contacted when I first time installed a pi-hole and opened a local news page while being on piHole webUI to test if it works.

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Ghostery has an "auto-reject cookies" setting.