the most aggravating trend Firefox jumped on was making the option to allow-list cookies a byzantine and infuriating process from what it used to be.
If you want to reject all cookies and allow-list only a handful of sites, youll need to go into privacy settings and choose a "custom" option to reject all cookies. presumably you're knowledgeable if youre here but if not, theres a scary warning that tells you doing this will "cause websites to break." Once thats done, reload your tabs and realize that if you choose "allow all cookies" at a later date, switching back to the "custom" setting doesnt return you to your former "block all cookies," just the watery default of blocking some cookies.
now if you want to allow-list a site, good luck. You cant use add-ons to do it and theres no menu option to quickly accomplish this anymore. open your settings again, under privacy, and custom settings again, and youre faced with a form to enter your new site. once you add the site to the list, you must hit save. Yes, the site is in the list now, but unless you hit save, you didnt add it.
Now arguably firefox cracked down on cookie block/allow capability at the behest of google and advertisers some years ago but to see them doubling back on the cookie issue --not to fix the blocklist feature but to nanny-state your cookie preferences even further-- is a real slap in the face.
stop tip toeing around the issue to appease advertisers. Let us block what we want to quickly and easily.
If you want to reject all cookies and allow-list only a handful of sites, youll need to go into privacy settings and choose a "custom" option to reject all cookies. presumably you're knowledgeable if youre here but if not, theres a scary warning that tells you doing this will "cause websites to break." Once thats done, reload your tabs and realize that if you choose "allow all cookies" at a later date, switching back to the "custom" setting doesnt return you to your former "block all cookies," just the watery default of blocking some cookies.
now if you want to allow-list a site, good luck. You cant use add-ons to do it and theres no menu option to quickly accomplish this anymore. open your settings again, under privacy, and custom settings again, and youre faced with a form to enter your new site. once you add the site to the list, you must hit save. Yes, the site is in the list now, but unless you hit save, you didnt add it.
Now arguably firefox cracked down on cookie block/allow capability at the behest of google and advertisers some years ago but to see them doubling back on the cookie issue --not to fix the blocklist feature but to nanny-state your cookie preferences even further-- is a real slap in the face.
stop tip toeing around the issue to appease advertisers. Let us block what we want to quickly and easily.