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[-] SwooshBakery624@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

Don't do that.

Cookie extensions

❗️Sanitizing in-session is a false sense of privacy. They do nothing for IP tracking. Even Tor Browser does not sanitize in-session e.g. when you request a new circuit. A new ID requires both full sanitizing and a new IP. The same applies to Firefox

❗️Cookie extensions can lack APIs or implementation of them to properly sanitize: e.g.

⚠️ [last checked Nov 2024], Cookie Auto Delete even instructs it's users to disable Total Cookie Protection - ⚠️ DO NOT DO THIS ⚠️

As of Firefox 86, strict mode is not supported at this time due to missing APIs to handle the Total Cookie Protection [... followed by instructions]

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"don't lock your door, it does not prevent scammers from getting your home address"

???

yeah, we know deleting cookies doesn't prevent IP tracking, that's also why I use a VPN

[-] pr3d@eviltoast.org 5 points 1 day ago

I don't get it. Of course it doesn't help with IP tracking of fingerprinting, but it deletes all cookies when I leave a site. My browsers runs very long on desktop and mobile, so Firefox's 'Delete cookies on close' doesn't help much.

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