Daily Archives: 2021-08-10

Article note: I've been anticipating it for years, I wonder if it's actually time for the loot-and-scoot. The failure of some middleman entity and/or the taxi dispatch companies to agree upon a decent app/API is a "Sears failed to be Amazon, even though they already were" level blunder.

Article note: ...A subset of the things Cookie Auto Delete has been doing (with user-settable policy and one-time overrides) for the several years since I switched back to FireFox. At least this should work on mobile since they won't bless CAD to run there.

Enlarge / This menacing firefox seems to be on the prowl for unwanted third-party cookies. (credit: Hung Chung Chih via Getty Images)

Mozilla's Firefox 91, released this morning, includes a new privacy management feature called Enhanced Cookie Clearing. The new feature allows users to manage all cookies and locally stored data generated by a particular website—regardless of whether they're cookies tagged to that site's domain or cookies placed from that site but belonging to a third-party domain, eg Facebook or Google.

Building on Total Cookie Protection

The new feature builds and depends upon Total Cookie Protection, introduced in February with Firefox 86. Total Cookie Protection partitions cookies by the site that placed them, rather than the domain that owns them—which means that if a hypothetical third party we'll call "Forkbook" places tracking (or authentication) cookies on both momscookies.com and grandmascookies.com, it can't reliably tie the two together.

Without cookie partitioning, a single Forkbook cookie would contain the site data for both momscookies.com and grandmascookies.com. With cookie partitioning, Forkbook must set two separate cookies—one for each site—and can't necessarily relate one to the other.