Reviews for Cookie AutoDelete
Cookie AutoDelete by CAD Team
1,469 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14043873, 6 years agoA necessary security add-on that works well and as advertised. Before using, set up a whitelist or you will lose your cookies.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14043496, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Francewhoa, 6 years agoSummary:
Love it. Easy. Automated. Confusing Blue Color.
Strength:
• Open source. If you are not familiar with "open source", it means this app is more secure. Because its code is publicly available for review and contributions on GitHub at https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete
• Attractive MIT License. This means the software code of this add-on app is owned and supported by a friendly not-for-profit community. Instead of a for-profit corporation. And more secure because its full code is publicly available for review.
• Easy to use. Using the button in the browser toolbar.
• Whitelist cookies. Very easy. Two clicks to whitelist a website.
• Frequent add-on updates
• “Automatic Cleaning” allow you to optionally automatically delete cookies from closed tabs after a set delay
• Export or import your whitelist of cookies expressions/rules
• Well documented
• Works with Firefox 52 or more recent
• Available for both Firefox/Tor Browser and Chromium/Chrome
_____• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/
_____• https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookie-autodelete/fhcgjolkccmbidfldomjliifgaodjagh
• Internationalization (i18n)
• Many more features
Challenge:
• The color of the toolbar icon for whitelisted websites is blue. Which is confusing at start. Because for most extensions the color green is use for whitelisted websites. But after this initial learning curve, the user interface works fine.
• Can not edit cookies. But this can be done with other extensions which focused on software engineer and testing.
Using:
• Extension 2.2.0
• Firefox 52 (64-bit)
• Tor Browser 52 (64-bit)
• Debian 8 Jessie 64-bit
• GNOME 3.14.1 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13368081, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13761422, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Eddy Blom, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12550056, 6 years agoNeed confirmation before cleaning. The risk of data loss can not be justified by "security".
I mean confirmation by pressing the "clear" button, after accidentally clicking on it instead of clicking on the arrow selection.Developer response
posted 6 years agoStartup cleanup happens when the extension reloads. So updates to the extension = reloading the extension. Thus triggering a cleanup on update that deletes greylisted cookies and various other unused cookies. Also, enabling "Clean Cookies from Open Tabs on Startup" will clean a lot more than you expect. In the future, I will see if this can be fixed. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14024800, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12367835, 6 years agoEasy to use. Allows you to protect cookies from sites you want to keep, like login sites. Deletes unprotected cookies shortly after viewing page or next browser opening. In the past I was manually deleting cookies every day. I don't like to be tracked.
- Rated 4 out of 5by burster, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12624259, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14011399, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by christian93, 6 years agoUseless when you open consecutive sites on the same tab. You MUST close a tab to be effective. What about deleting cookies when a site is no longer active ?. That´s the trick.
Developer response
posted 6 years agohttps://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/wiki/Documentation#enable-cleanup-on-domain-change - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13993248, 6 years agoThe extension seems good, but it would be significantly better with a 1-line privacy policy saying 'we will never collect your information or track you.' Will update one day if I notice one gets written :)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Damien Cassou, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13976905, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Lo, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rick313, 6 years agoLove it! I hate when cookies hang around forever for sites that I have only visited once, and this extension makes that a thing of the past. What I don't understand is, why isn't this functionality built into Firefox itself? Hopefully one day it will be, but for now, thank you SO much Kenny Do for an excellent extension.