Hello,

Cokoies are mainly used to keep track of all the data, and it is shown that you used websites (eg. facebook) less than a day ago, at which point they store data to keep everything relevant (to my knowledge), and to track activity. However, if you want to make it just take up less space because storage space is a problem, then you can enable Firefox to delete cookies when closing.

Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data > Clear Data (manual clear) In same Privacy & Security panel, check the box for Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed to automate deletion.

Yes, I totally understand how they work and what they're for. I have worked online for over 27+ years, so very familiar... but that's also the point.

They *never* used to fill up that fast. It would take like a week before Facebook cookies would hit 30mb... now it's hitting 50-70 in a day - and I wasn't even on it.

If I tell it to delete when I close it - I will have to log in every single time, do the code reset blah blah blah, which is a pain for the times I do go onto it.

My simple point was, cookies used to be handled better that they didn't stay persistently like this - they did - not this badly. (And it's not just Facebook, that's just the worst offender).

If firefox has this setting in place, "Balanced for protection and performance. Pages will load normally. Firefox blocks the following: Social media trackers Cross-site cookies in all windows Tracking content in Private Windows Cryptominers Fingerprinters"

it's definitely NOT blocking these things, if it's filling up like crazy. Why? Why is it not blocking all this extra stuff?

That's my question.

(Years ago we could actually view info on the cookies... now there's so much hidden, we can't see it)