I'm the author of that add-on. Maybe I can add to the discussion by outlining my motivation for writing SDC. I'm currently in the process of compiling the results of an automated crawl of thousands of popular sites that I did last month. I think that every www user should be aware of this:
- Self-Destructing Cookies automatically removes cookies when they are no longer used by open browser tabs. With the cookies, lingering sessions, as well as information used to spy on you, will be expunged. Websites will only be permitted to identify you while you actually use them and can not stalk you across the entire web.
- 26/2/2019 Self Destroying Cookies Get rid of a site's cookies as soon as you close its tabs. Protects against trackers and zombie-cookies. Trustworthy services can be whitelisted.
- Cookie AutoDelete is a new extension for the Firefox web browser that has been inspired by the popular Self-Destructing Cookies add-on. Cookie AutoDelete is a WebExtension, which means that it will work in Firefox 57 and newer versions of the web browser, while Self-Destructing Cookies won't.
- The privacy model of browsers relies on the same-origin policy. The same origin policy is in practice routinely circumvented by active identifier sharing. The difference between 1st party identifiers and 3rd party identifiers has become meaningless.
Automate cookie deletion in Firefox Self-Destructing Cookies is a Firefox add-on that makes it easy to protect your online privacy by automatically deleting the cookies from websites that you are done visiting. Normally, cookies are stored in your browser for a set period of time, which allows advertisers to track you across multiple sites or deliver customized advertising based on products. Self-Destructing Cookies (here on referred to as SDC) acts swiftly to destroy all cookies and trackers that are not currently in use, as soon as you add the extension. From now on, every time you close a tab or end a browsing session, you’ll see a notification bubble informing you that a particular site’s tracking cookies were found.
Self Destructing Cookies Firefox
- Self-Destructing Cookies is a proof of concept for a model that actively derives the minimum set of identifiers that you need to browse the web at any given moment. This is a possible workaround for a world without the same-origin policy.
Self-destructing Cookies
- Cache abuse is rampant. The cache must be considered a store of identifying tokens. If you use SDC, you should definitely enable the automatic cache cleaning. Print selection 1 3 3. Set the timeout to 3 minutes or so. Remember that identifiers are frequently shared. It only takes a single party to identify you from something they put in your cache.