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@nina_kali_nina
What I miss in the common browsers, or so l at least I haven't found it, is a function in the browser that lets you delete all cookies recieved in the last hour or day or so.
Some sites let me reject cookies, but some don't. I just want to delete the cookies from that site and keep the ones for the sites I trust and regularly visit.

@MennoWolff @nina_kali_nina
I have the solution if you're using a Chromium-based browser:

1: Navigate to `chrome://settings/content/siteData`
2: Set *Default Behavior* to `Delete data sites have saved to your device when you close all windows`
3: In *Customized Behaviors* -> *Allowed to save data on your device*, click on the “Add” button, and add every website you need, under this format:

If you don't know the cookies you need, `[*.]example.com`
If you know, `subdomain.example.com`.

@MennoWolff @nina_kali_nina
Keep in mind that this is to delete cookies from every site but the ones you trust, every time you completely close the browser.
@thatonecoder @nina_kali_nina
Thanks. I didn't know that feature existed.
Not a huge fan of Google these days so I hadn't checked there.
@MennoWolff @nina_kali_nina
Also, if you need help to set up a proper list (I have been able to reduce my cookie size to 90 MB), let me know! I'm always happy to help.
@thatonecoder @MennoWolff wait, 90 megabytes of cookies is good these days? 🫣
@nina_kali_nina @MennoWolff
Mastodon takes ~30 MB (and I have 2 accounts). Lichess takes ~9 MB, Element takes ~7 MB, Proton takes ~6 MB.
@thatonecoder 😭🫠 what is wrong with modern web

@nina_kali_nina
I believe that:
1: Cookies are being used for absolutely everything
2: Cookies are not separated by necessity (as in login cookies being separate from everything else)
3: Even if those first 2 are accomplished, people are not given the choice to opt-out of cookies that aren't really needed.

Also, it's important to note that I'd have 600 MB of storage used by cookies, if I didn't setup my YouTube filter list

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@thatonecoder @nina_kali_nina is that really just cookies, or also indexed db and local storage?

Here my cookies are just a few hundred kilobytes (not megabytes), but local storage is several megabytes, with some websites storing a lot of javascript code there, the worst one being wikipedia (3-5MB,duolicated for each language since they are hosted on separate domains)

@thatonecoder @nina_kali_nina the big difference being that, at least, local storage isn't re-sent to the server everytime you visit the website. It's accessed locally by javascript code as needed. But wikipedia using it as a cache still isn't great... and I don't know how they ended up with several megabytes for wikipedia anyway