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Lusito / forget-me-not

Make the browser forget website data, except for the data you want to keep.
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Can't completely delete cookies on Aliexpress #258

Open pro100Hub opened 4 years ago

pro100Hub commented 4 years ago

Hello. The domain best.aliexpress appears after when I click on the referral link. My original domain is aliexpress.ru. I can only restore the original domain through the Firefox settings, delete all cookies that are associated with this domain. Can you please tell me how can I clear all cookies using your application as Firefox does in its settings? Or please add this feature.

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Lusito commented 4 years ago

That Dialog in the Firefox settings is worded very badly in english. I assume it's worded badly in your language as well. What Firefox shows there is a combination of all data stored for a domain. This includes cookies, local storage, indexed db and some meta data.

If FMN cleaned correctly, there might still be leftover meta data, but websites can not access this meta data. Sadly Webextensions can't clean that either at the moment.

Please verify if the cleanup really doesn't work. If you are concerned about actual cookies being left, you can use the cookie browser (the book icon) to see if there are cookies left after cleanup. For all other data, I'm afraid there is no simple way to check if data is left except by seeing if the webpage remembers you in some way.

Here is a page where you can try the cleanup: https://lusito.github.io/forget-me-not/

pro100Hub commented 4 years ago

Referral link for example and tests: https://ali.ski/fbJ0n

In order to delete best.aliexpress and restore the original aliexpress.ru domain, I need to completely clear the domains in one go: aliexpress.com aliexpress.ru best.aliexpress.ru FMN does not provide this functionality, can you add it? So that when entering the aliexpress domain, the extension sees all of its possible subdomains and countries.

I think that the problem can be solved if your extension learns to clear domains in this form * .aliexpress. *.

Now I see that the extension offers me to clear the domain only on best.aliexpress.ru (this is an affiliate domain that I do not want to use), but this method does not help restore the original clean domain.

P.S: Sorry for my English. I use Google Translate.

Lusito commented 4 years ago

You can create a rule for *.aliexpress.* manually under the rules tab. Just type it into the input and press "add".

pro100Hub commented 4 years ago

The problem with the FMN extension is that I can't clear *.aliexpress.* right now without closing my browser. Therefore, I am asking you to add such a function. I don't always follow referral links, so setting the rules isn't quite the right thing to do. I want to clear all data on *.aliexpress.* and reopen the tab and see the original clean domain without "best.aliexpress". I don't want this domain to be cleared every time I start the browser. Only when I want to do it manually and as needed.