you know what i'm amazed browsers don't offer? more fine-grained cookie policy beyond "accept all, accept all from only first party, or deny all". what if i want to block every site from having cookies but a few? or if i want to say "no thank you i don't want cookies for these sites that use them to track for paywalls"
these days i think it's just good policy to by default block all cookies and javascript, and decide to allow them when it comes up with, like, a prompt (that isn't a modal dialog)
@KitRedgrave have you seen the "umatrix" browser plugin? because it does basically this and is really nice
@chimericalgirls i haven't and people are recommending it, so i'll have a look :) thanks
@KitRedgrave oh ahaha apologies for the duplicate recommends <3
@KitRedgrave I'm very happy with my pi-hole, at least at home, in stopping a lot of the excesses of the web
@KitRedgrave you don't have to worry about cookies if you are the author of every single webpage you ever use
@KitRedgrave i'm just sayin', consider it 🤔
@kibi i wish i could practically do this
sites i use on a daily basis:
+ occasional web searches
+ the MDN
+ Wikipedia
+ Wiktionary
+ unicode.org
+ Mastodon
+ AO3
with the exception of Unicode and internet searching i could probably be a contributor to all of those things if i really tried for it… 🤔🤔
@KitRedgrave oh and i guess 8tracks and music streaming services if you count that but
@kibi you could run searx and contribute to that
@KitRedgrave yeah exactly
i run a public #searx instance if you'd like to use it!
https://null.media
you are welcome to verify that we don't keep logs
https://source.heropunch.io/infra/null.media
also available over #cjdns
https://source.heropunch.io/xj9/heropunch.meshlocal
@KitRedgrave too many sites just don't work and it would be a mystery to the general public.
I do wish we could get away with allowing primary site and denying 3rd party, which is the uMatrix default, but even that breaks tons of sites.
Heck, I can get DRM free from HumbleBundle, but it requires a bunch of domains to buy it ( multiples from Google, Stripe and CDNs with "oh, surprise, you need this one too" domains )
uMatrix makes it mostly easy.
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@KitRedgrave Just gonna say that chromium does actually have internal cookie granular whitelisting, also permissions based. It's just not very intuitively designed to work with.
@KitRedgrave i have disabled cookies for everything, now when i need cookies, i just click on icon in the url bar and click 'allow', this adds an exception for the current domain.
@KitRedgrave The thing is, they used to. I remember having Firefox set to ask me for all third party cookies, and hitting "remember and deny" for most.
I'm not sure why that went away, it was super useful. Maybe it was part of that "user friendly" interface redesign.
@KitRedgrave Seems a bit much to have this as a first-party feature (given how little people would use it), but extensions like uMatrix can do this and make it pretty convenient