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I'd rather just set most sites to wipe cookies per page and then just click whatever button they like.

Almost all websites have this "necessary cookies" song and dance going on. There are no necessary cookies, I view your page and then close it and we can delete everything. It's total nonsense.

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I want to stay logged into some websites long term and not go through the entire 2FA login song and dance every time I want to e.g. check HN. Unfortunately since web browsers don’t have a usable authentication store we are stuck with using cookies for this. All other uses for cookies are basically invalid.

Sure, that makes sense.

99% of websites I visit that do the cookie crap I never log in to, though. The banner could easily be kept until that point.

My solution was to write a bash script that runs something like "delete from moz_cookies where host not in 'ycombinator.com');" in the Firefox cookies.sqlite file. I run that every time I suspend my computers.

There's Cookie AutoDelete extension for Firefox And Chromium-based browsers - it does that automatically

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