Can I make my cookie preferences apply to all websites?
Almost every site I visit offers me control over cookies. The better ones divide them into several categories: strictly necessary, functional, personalisation, tracking etc. I would like to set/save my preferences for these categories for all sites without having to re-do it for every new site I visit. Is this possible?
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How are you doing it now ? As interesting and never heard of that before or that it can be done.
At the moment I'm the FF privacy settings as shown below. However, I don't know if these settings over-ride website settings, and there are no options for different classes of cookies, hence my question.
I also note that FF recommends "accept cookies from third-party sites: ALWAYS. Why is this?
CURRENT SETTINGS Use custom settings for history
Accept cookies and site data from websites: YES
Keep until: THEY EXPIRE Accept third-party cookies and site data: NEVER
Use Tracking Protection to block known trackers: ALWAYS
send websites a “Do Not Track” signal that you don’t
want to be tracked: ALWAYS
TimEarl moo ko soppali ci
- I LOL at expire as some do not until 2029
- Never doing 3rd party can break video and some or things that require it.
- Use tracking always,, can use regular browser instead of Private as t overrides and settings are global.
- Sending Do Not Track is a joke, they will do what they want to.
also sending it sometimes I understand can attract them.
Have a look but you substitute giving info to websites and give to below.:
Shadow110 moo ko soppali ci
Do not track only makes Firefox add a DNT=1 header to the request headers that Firefox sends. Only few website may be looking at this header and do something.
You can set network.cookie.thirdparty.sessionOnly to true on the about:config page to make third-party cookies behave as session cookies that expire when Firefox is closed.
You can leave third-party cookies disabled and add a cookie allow exception is cases where you notice that third-party cookies are necessary (there is usually a security message in the Web Console in such cases like action is not secure).
You can only allow all cookies from a specific domain and you can't select which cookies to allow and which cookies to block. You can look for a cookie manager extension to get finer control.
Thanks for your answer. How do I get to the about:config page, please?
HI, Copy/Paste about;config to the Address Bar and Enter. Accept the warning.
Copy/Paste : network.cookie.thirdparty.sessionOnly into the search bar that runs the whole width of the page at the top. Wait. Double Click it to set it to False.
Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.