Reviews for Cookie AutoDelete
Cookie AutoDelete by CAD Team
Response by k3nny5
Developer response
posted 5 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
1,503 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19484692, 9 days agoRecently I've found that all cookies I have are really from the URL (websites) I visit, not with weird names like 000adv.net as before. So, I conclude that this app works well!
- Rated 2 out of 5by Camilo, 20 days agoThis was probably a good extension as of the last update (3 years ago). Now it's abandoned, unmantained, obsolete and maybe even dangerous.
The list of domains has a terrible layout with misplaced scrollbars, very difficult to navigate.
It also requires the following two flags:
* privacy.userContext.enabled
* privacy.userContext.ui.enabled
that I cannot remove in order to disable the useless "container tabs" feature. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13877502, a month agoAutocleaning stopped working correctly, cookies are not deleted
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15647507, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dfaure, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19188274, 2 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Stelioss, 3 months agoDoesn't reliably clean all cookies. With auto cleaning and cleanup on domain change options enabled, i often find non-white listed cookies left behind, long after the 15 seconds time limit and even after restart.
The UI is very convoluted. I appreciate the right-click entry that allows you to whitelist websites while there, but setting up the options of the addon is a mess. Perhaps a novice/expert UI option would help with that. - Rated 5 out of 5by Olivier, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18752595, 3 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Beanski, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by irwanwr, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19016345, 4 months agoNo clue how to use this over-engineered extension. The UI is baffling.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Actr, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by mann, 4 months agoNo longer works reliably: Some cookies are still deleted, but most remain. Annoying if you rely on this function and end up with your pants down because of it!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Craig, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19026513, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Simple, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by gagatek, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Yokoshima, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Davi, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18218075, 4 months agoMerci au développeur pour cette excellent extension, il me tarde qu'elle soit finalisée sur Google Chrome avec Manifest V3
- Rated 5 out of 5by Harin Khakhi, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by M4rk, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by taracdia, 5 months ago