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[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I find deleting history and cookies every time I close the browser to be an unnecessary annoyance. You can easily change it, though.

[–] xtools@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

you can easily disable the deletion of cookies on a site-by-site basis from the address bar. turns out there's only a handful sites i visit where setting an exception is necessary, so i rather appreciate this feature.

i like having access to my browsing history though, so that one I've indeed turned off

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

I was unaware of that, thanks. I might try that.

[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I get why you'd be okay with history being locally saved, but saving cookies is a slippery slope. It's very hard to know exactly what's being recorded on you, even on a privacy-focused browser

As soon as you log in and then allow a website to auto login on your computer, you just give up any anonymity you had towards that website

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

I do block all third party cookies/known tracking cookies, so it's not totally open. But you're right. It's just that in my case that's a compromise I'm alright with for general internet use.