Selective cookie blocker ? (GitHub)

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Selective cookie blocker ? (GitHub) - Lemmy.World

Hi everyone ! Right now I use: - Firefox full protection with everything blocked by default - AdGuard adblocker extension - Adguardhome DNS bloquer - ProtonVPN through wireguard - Selfhosted searxng instance (metasearch engine aggregator). While this gives me reasonable doubt of protection, this blocks me out to interact with FOSS projects on github, which kindda sucks!! I don’t want to accepts GitHub’s long cookie list of tracking and statistics [https://github.com/privacy/cookies/], but not being able too interact and help FOSS project to thrive, improve, get some visibility, will in the long term hurt FOSS projects. I’m aware of GitHub’s cookie management preferences [https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-user-account-settings/managing-your-cookie-preferences-for-githubs-enterprise-marketing-pages], but I don’t trust them to manage and choose what should be accepted or not ! Firefox only allows to block/accept everything and all extensions are just to delete them. I couldn’t find any related and somehow workaround on this issue. Q: Is there anyway to only accept cookies allowing me to login and interact with repos without accepting those tracking and analytic cookies? If you have any solution/workaround to share, I’m all ears !

The add-on Cookie AutoDelete allows way more flexibility with cookies including white listing cookies. Example: you could have all cookies deleted but not the ones on your whitelist. It has many other options for controlling cookies.

Thank you for your input :). While this add-on has more flexibility on what to keep in your browser, it only deletes them after they have entered your system. It’s actually not as useful as it sounds because your data is already exchanged with the server.

If you are interested you can read my too long edit to see what I meant and how to block specific cookie before they enter your system. Also on how to spoof your user agent and activate privacy.fingerprintingProtection in firefox.