alcinnz / Odysseus

Bridging the elementary OS and Web user experiences
https://odysseus.adrian.geek.nz
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Block cookies, etc for infrequently visited pages #121

Open alcinnz opened 6 years ago

alcinnz commented 6 years ago

Idea discussed by @andrioid@mastodon.technology .

Odysseus already has a concept of frequently visited sites, so this shouldn't be too hard. Though it may lead to annoy popups begging you for cookies, which should be addressed.

This is valuable because unless you visit a site frequently you probably don't actively want them to remember you, And an increasing number of people (including the ones I want to target with Odysseus) actively don't want those sites to remember them.

alcinnz commented 6 years ago

To quote @android@mastodon.technology:

Another plus here is that you'd be automatically logged out of all the sites you procrastinate on, unless you add exceptions for them.

Always being logged out of Facebook is awesome. I recommend it, since there is absolutely no content there, whatsoever.

Also I would want to allow people to disable this feature if it's getting in there way. A preferences dialog would be useful there, as would a permissions popover activated by clicking the site's favicon in the addressbar. Hey the favicon doesn't do anything yet but be there representing the site, and this would keep the UI clutter minimal. Also it's not a positive or negative, this is how Google Chrome does similar things.