Mozilla caves in to cookie trackers?

[Elixer]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606655

In short, they removed the 'Ask me every time" cookie option so you can't review the cookie data anymore as easily as you could before.
It is currently set to accept all or disable all, nothing else.

They claimed it was removed, since it "exposes far too much detail about the underlying implementation of the Web", as if that was a problem for those that wanted this feature on?

This gives users much less control than they had before, and there is no excuse for the code removal, besides trying to appease advertisers that want to track everything.

Bad move Mozilla.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Not too happy with it. I'm using a cookie management addon but it's probably not as good as this though.

 

[lxskllr]

I've never done it manually, but I don't like seeing features removed. I block all third party cookies, and use SelfDestructingCookies for the rest. Cookies get deleted on tab close with very few exceptions.

 

[TheRyuu]

You can configure uMatrix[1] to block cookies on a per-site basis. I have it set to globally block cookies and then enable them (first party cookies) on sites that need them (e.g. certain sites which need them for logons). I also globally block 3rd-party cookies in my browsers settings.

Although I use Chrome it should work all the same for Firefox since uMatrix has the same multi-browser support that uBlock has. Note: It does not actually block the cookie download but it does block anything from being sent so it has the same affect as if the cookie was blocked. It also has some other cookie settings in the uMatrix settings tab (e.g. deleting blocked cookies, etc).

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Mozilla continues on its march to being the prostitute of others. I'm pretty sure its not about its end users.

 

[John Connor]

Use the addon self destructing cookies and don't accept third party cookies unless they come from visited. Although that could cause some problems with certain sites.

I use self destructing cookies and I have to whitelist PayPal. I also whitelisted ebay. You will want to disable notifications as it's very annoying.