[tor-talk] What is "cookie protections"?

[Yury Bulka]

Thank you for your suggestion. That's a great Firefox addon
definitely. I used to use it on Firefox. More recently on FF I used
Cookie Monster.

But I'd like to minimize the use of addons on TBB whenever possible.

And it seems to me that the "Cookie Protections" dialog that's built
into TBB can be useful. I'd just like to better understand what is its
intended purpose. (And maybe document it on the wiki.)

Best,
Yury.

Alexis Wattel <alexiswattel at gmail.com> writes:

> ‎Hello,
>
> I recommend you try the extension 'Self deleting cookies'.
>
> By default, it accept cookies but deletes them once the tab is closed.
>
> Then you can whitelist specific domains to have their cookies remembered until browser shutdown or forever.
>
> Very elegant solution in my opinion. 
>
> Cheers.
> ‎
>   Message d'origine  
> De: Yury Bulka
> Envoyé: vendredi 8 janvier 2016 22:17
> À: Tor Talk List
> Répondre à: tor-talk at lists.torproject.org
> Objet: [tor-talk] What is "cookie protections"?
>
> Dear list,
>
> I'm experimenting with moving all my daily web browsing to the Tor
> Browser Bundle on Linux. For this use case, I've disabled the "Don't
> record browsing history or website data" check box in the Privacy and
> Security Settings dialog. (The reason is that I wanted to have the
> option to stay logged in on a few key websites.)
>
> There's only one potential danger I see here - cookies. (Of course
> there's also the danger of someone stealing my browsing history from my
> hard drive, but this is not in my threat model for now.)
>
> This is why I'd like to understand what is the "Cookie protections"
> dialog about. It's not clear to me what these "protections" do and how
> they are meant to be used. I suspect it may be something like a cookie
> white list, allowing one to mark certain cookies as protected and purge
> all the other cookies (exactly what I'd need for my use case), but I may
> be wrong.
>
> I couldn't find any info on it. Can someone clarify?
>
> Thanks,
> Yury.
>
> P.S. I also have some other questions about tweaks to TBB for the "main
> browser" use case, I'll ask them later to keep things clean.
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