Cookie AutoDelete
Control your cookies! This extension is inspired by Self-Destructing Cookies. When a tab closes, any cookies not being used are automatically deleted. Prevent tracking by other cookies and add only the ones you trust.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Google Chrome
- Tor Browser Bundle
- Chromium
- Firefox
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
Features
- No registration required
- No Tracking
- Ad-free
- Data Protection
Tags
- Firefox Extension
- Privacy Protection
- Google Chrome Extension
- privacy-cleaner
- self-destructing
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What is Cookie AutoDelete?
Control your cookies! This extension is inspired by 
Self-Destructing Cookies. When a tab closes, any cookies not being used are automatically deleted. Prevent tracking by other cookies and add only the ones you trust. Easily import and export your cookie whitelist.
Main features • Auto deletes cookies from closed tabs • Whitelist support for sites you want to keep cookies • Export or import your white list of cookies expressions/rules • Internationalization (i18n) • Available for both Chromium/Chrome and Firefox/Tor Browser • Open source. MIT License.
Cookie AutoDelete information
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Summary: Love it. Easy. Automated. Confusing Blue Color.
Strength: • Open source. If you are not familiar with "open source", it means this app is more secure. Because its code is publicly available for review and contributions on GitHub at https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete • Attractive MIT License. This means the software code of this add-on app is owned and supported by a friendly not-for-profit community. Instead of a for-profit corporation. And more secure because its full code is publicly available for review. • Easy to use. Using the button in the browser toolbar. • Whitelist cookies. Very easy. Two clicks to whitelist a website. • Frequent add-on updates • “Automatic Cleaning” allow you to optionally automatically delete cookies from closed tabs after a set delay • Export or import your whitelist of cookies expressions/rules • Well documented • Works with Firefox 52 or more recent • Available for both Chromium/Chrome and Firefox/Tor Browser _____• https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookie-autodelete/fhcgjolkccmbidfldomjliifgaodjagh _____• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/ • Internationalization (i18n) • Many more features
Challenge: • The color of the toolbar icon for whitelisted websites is blue. Which is confusing at start. Because for most extensions the color green is use for whitelisted websites. But after this initial learning curve, the user interface works fine. • Can not edit cookies. But this can be done with other extensions which focused on software engineer and testing.
Using: • Extension 2.2.0 • Chromium 57 (64-bit) • Chrome 66 (64-bit) • Debian 8 Jessie 64-bit • GNOME 3.14.1
Most straight forward cookie manager I've ever used.
Cookie Autodelete is a good tool, but it is easily over-aggressive if not set up thoroughly at start and watched after. Google is eyeing its removal over guidelines and last update was 2022. Automatic will grab everything, not just the site you're on, so you need to be careful about white-listing first, which is problematic because there doesn't seem to be an overview of existing cookies to choose from in the beginning. It's also just too easy to hit that yellow Clean button thinking it will lead to a listing. It has an undo button, but I question how well it works after a browser auto-clean. It shows cookies when at the site, vs having an ability to manage all the cookies on the browser. Cookie Autodelete can do more than cookie cleaning..Keep Cache, KeepIndexedDB, Keep LocalStorage, Keep Plugin Data, Keep Service Workers.
Very fine idea! And browser independent! Importing files is also a serious goodie.
Well, since it is a browser app, I don't see it as browser independent.
This is a fantastic, open source, free, privacy-enhancing browser add-on. I use and recommend it for Firefox. You can configure it to delete cookies after particular intervals (I have mine set to 1 second) and it can also whitelist or greylist chosen domains. Excellent!