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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 @thatonecoder What is *not* wrong with it?

Honestly, I find myself repeatedly feeling that things are not much better than during the browser wars, now we also have features only a few browsers implement, and sites that don't really care about being portable (egregious examples include github, where it's now harder to run the interface, and you can't get download links even with JS enabled, unless your browser supports whatever feature they demand;
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@nina_kali_nina @thatonecoder Mastodon (Web UI) 4.3 also started using features that narrow down the number of compatible browsers, not sure how that is now).

As for WHATWG standards, once the specification of fetch() was changed in a backwards-incompatible way, breaking sites. No versioning, no function name change...

But when the state of affairs starts reaching hundreds of megabytes for a single page load for a text article, something must have gone terribly wrong.

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@njsg @nina_kali_nina
I totally agree. Another problem is that there are 10000 JS video players, when the HTML one works fine. (oh, let me guess why they use their own, TO PUSH 60 MINUTES ADS!)
@njsg @nina_kali_nina
Honestly, I use NO JavaScript in my personal website (check it out here: https://thatonecoder.codeberg.page/). I feel as if people overuse JavaScript, when HTML + CSS (and sometimes, SIMPLE JS JUST FOR WHAT YOU NEED), is more than enough.
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