Hi, My browsing setup on desktop is Firefox with temporary containers, ublock origin and a few other plugins. On iOS I’m using Firefox Focus most of the time with the occasional Safari window in Private Browsing mode (which has a similar behaviour to temporary containers plugin, all tabs are completely isolated). On desktop ublock origin hides all cookie popups (thus not accepting anything) but on iOS I’ve been going through their hoops of going into advanced mode, toggling everything off and ‘confirm my choices’. I’ve been doing this on principle only because the average lifetime of a tab (session) is only a few minutes so all cookies would be deleted anyway. But recently I was wondering – have I been doing it wrong all along? I’m not sure how cookie tracking works these days as last time I dealt with them server side was back in the PHP3 days but if my understanding is correct, accepting cookies means that the data brokers would have to keep a few bytes (cookie id) in their database for at least a short while hoping that I’d return. So – would I pollute (and take a tiny bit of disk space) the data brokers by accepting their cookies and clearing the session afterwards instead of refusing the cookies? Thanks.
Story Published at: January 3, 2023 at 02:41PM
Story Published at: January 3, 2023 at 02:41PM