Question: how different is 3rd-party blocking from FF native one?

Lusito / forget-me-not

Make the browser forget website data, except for the data you want to keep.

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Question: how different is 3rd-party blocking from FF native one? #55

Closed OhSoGood closed 6 years ago

OhSoGood commented 6 years ago

Hi again... And thanks for reading all the questions & comments!

I was wondering what's the purpose of blocking 3rd-party cookies in your extension, given that Firefox already offers this capability? I suppose I missed something, but maybe the documentation could be more explicit on this?

Regards

Lusito commented 6 years ago

Two reasons:

Convenience.. Quite a big part of this extension can be done with firefox itself. But it's very uncomfortable to do so. This extension is mostly done so it's less of a hassle.
White and Gray rules protect third party cookies. Not sure if firefox's exceptions apply to their third-party cookie blocking. But you wouldn't want to manage two different exception lists, would you?

Does this answer your question?

OhSoGood commented 6 years ago

Thanks!