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I've been using this feature in Firefox extensively. Basically I would like to delete everything site-related on browser exit except for several specific websites that I truly care about keeping my session settings on browser restarts. And an in a similar way, block specific domains from adding cookies (and use storage too, maybe?) completely. Attached is a screenshot of how it looks like in Firefox at the moment.

It's useful because I don't have to second-guess any block lists and know that I start fresh every time for every website except the ones I specifically need for work.
And on the other hand there are some websites that I don't want interacting with my cookies/storage database at all.

    One of the really neat features in Firefox 👍

    Would like to see something similar in Orion

      13 days later

      I too would love this. I was using the Cookie AutoDelete extension, but it was causing significant performance and reliability issues in OrionRC.

        8 months later

        Was going to create a thread for this but saw the tread from last year still kicking about and still under review. Is it possible to enable this 'whitelisting'? I would want to clear all my cookies when I close browser but it is also at the same time, a big pain to login to work Office365 sites again. So if cookies are saved, my session for work can start where I left off and other sessions and cookies cleared when I exited.

          We should be able to do this, similar to Firefox and Edge. Currently, you clearing cookies after a certain period of time logs you out of sites you want to keep every session, like Kagi Search.

            yokoffing Yeah - it should at least do this for pinned sites or something. So the ones you want to stay logged in, you just pin them and those cookies are never cleared. Or just in settings page, you add a list of domains or website for which cookies should be retained between sessions unless manually deleted.

              5 days later

              marcel001122 Or just in settings page, you add a list of domains or website for which cookies should be retained between sessions unless manually deleted.

              Precisely

                Cookie retention is currently global - [Settings]-[Privacy]-"Automatically Delete Cookies".

                Per-Site Settings [Settings for xxx] - "Enable Cookies" is a checkbox.

                This is insane, especially since the cookie management extensions don't work with Orion.

                Suggestion/Request:
                Per Site Settings should be a matching dropdown with three additions:
                Cookies: {Default; Disabled; Remove after one day ; Remove after one week ; Remove after two weeks ; Remove after one month ; Remove after three months ; Remove after six months ; Remove after one year; Remove after Orion exits; Never Remove}

                (The Additions are Default - meaning whatever the global setting is, Disabled and Never Remove.)

                Generally we suffer extreme cookie-crud. Every site wants to set cookies, and we often need to let them do it for the site to work. So setting the default to a week is rational.

                But that signs us out of everything we actually want to stay signed into. So being able to create exceptions would be great.

                Meanwhile, I don't (for example) want most news sites having a cookie for longer than a day. They need a day because otherwise they keep blocking the bottom of the content to ensure I'm human, but if I give them a week, they say I've read my three (or so) free articles and paywall me.

                So, for example, I would set:

                • The default to a week so most sights I can sign into or resume a shopping cart for a bit, but then go away. E.g. Expedia, Nordstrom, a one-time clothing purchase that required registration.
                • Some sites to "disabled" so that no tracking at all can occur.
                • Some to "One Day" such as most newspapers, so they function but I can read them. e.g. FoxNews.
                • Sites I use frequently or long-term, such as Reddit.com, WSJ.com, RealClear.com, to "Never Delete."
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                    TCat I think I saw something like this already, can you find so I can merge?

                      6 months later

                      As the title says I am requesting an "allow list" for sites that won't be affected by the automatic cookie deletion. I really loved this feature in firefox and it's the only reason I didn't switch to orion yet

                      a custom buttom below autimatically delete cookies that opens a list for exceptions where sites can be manually added

                        Merged 4 posts from Cookie Retention (Privacy) should ALSO be by-site. and Add exceptions to "automatically delete cookies".
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