Cookies are needed on many Internet sites. They are however also used for tracking purposes to track the movement of Internet users and can pose a privacy risk as they might reveal websites that the user visited in the past.
Most web browsers offer a basic cookie management module that can be used to delete some or all cookies and to configure how and when websites may store cookies on the computer system.
But they usually do not offer more sophisticated means of working with cookies like whitelisting some cookies that are needed and deleting the rest.
Selective Cookie Delete is a Firefox add-on that can be used for that purpose. It offers a feature to either whitelist or blacklists cookies on specific domains.
A user could for instance whitelist cookies that are needed to access a website’s functionality on a regular basis. The same could be achieved by manually deleting cookies that are no longer needed after ever browsing session but this poses the risk of forgetting to do it and to accidentally delete the wrong cookie.
The Selective Cookie Delete configuration menu can be accessed from the Firefox status bar after installation.
The options in the main configuration window include configuring domains that should be blacklisted or those that should be whitelisted. A click on the Edit Site List button next to each option can be used to open a listing that displays all cookies that are currently stored on the computer system and the domains that are already whitelisted or blacklisted. Domains can here easily be added to the whitelist or blacklist.
It is only possible to use one of the options meaning that the user can either whitelist domains or blacklist them but not both.
It is recommended to select the “automatically remove cookies as per preferences when Firefox is closed” in the configuration menu and not in Firefox directly as the Firefox directive will delete protected cookies as well.
Selective Cookie Delete can be downloaded from the Mozilla Firefox website.
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You can do the same with CrapCleaner.
You can whitelist cookies in Crap Cleaner?
In CCleaner you can select cookies that will not be erased during a cleaning.
I use the Firefox add-on CS Lite and I am happy with it.