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Comment by k_bx | Hacker News Reader

As I understand -- I'll have to sign in to every website I visit each time? (or manage white-list) Well, then it seems like a not a fit for me.

But still, thanks for reminding that I can disable 3rd-party cookies -- I just did that for my firefox.

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It needs to have 1st-party cookies enabled in FF for all sites. Now you're setting cookies on visits that you might not have if you'd used a whitelister only. (I sometimes visit Google and YT w/out needing any.)

My buddy Cookie Whitelist has let me decide when I need them on temporarily for years. They're not auto-deleted until session-end, but since I've turned off access, doesn't matter.

I do like the cache-emptying feature. Decided to try what another writer suggested, turn disk and memory caching off.

The auto-fill for passwords still works. All the sites I have visited with the exception of Pingdom came with all the info filled in. I just had to click the button to login.

With Pingdom it asked me to reenter my timezone and site to monitor. It is like it totally lost my account without the cookie.

Yes, there's a whitelisting feature where you have to mark "Delete cookies Never for this website" while you're at that website (or there's an Options panel for this - I haven't explored enough yet).

the addon places an icon below in the browser, in the addon bar; there you can fine-tune the cookie policy for the current site, it's a two clicks operation. Once you had setup your common sites you can completely forget about cookies.

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