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How to prevent websites from tracking you (all browsers) (lemmy.today)

submitted 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by silly_goose@lemmy.today to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Use a vpn with a Eu server. More sites like google will show a cookie popup with the "reject all cookies" option.

Reject all cookies if it exists. Otherwise accept cookies and then click on the :

shield icon > cookies and site data > delete (trash icon)

This is super useful when you want to read an article on some news website and it shows a cookie popup.

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[–] silly_goose@lemmy.today 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

I would do that but I want to stay logged in on some websites like lichess.

The login scene is so terrible nowadays with 2fa, passkeys etc. It's not as easy as just remembering a password or using a simple password manager.

[–] oeuf@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 hours ago

Look for 'manage exceptions' in the settings if your browser is Firefox-based.

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Just whitelist the ones you want to keep. Pretty sure Firefox now let's you whitelist, I use a plug in because I've been doing it that way for years (ie before ff had the option)

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

Wait, foxfire does it natively now? I’ve been installing cookie autodelete for years

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 1 points 10 hours ago

I assumed you meant the whitelisting not the autodelete - cookie autodelete on close has been in FF for years, but some time recently they brought in whitelisting as well - go to settings, privacy and security, cookies and site data, manage exceptions

Might be worth deleting CAD and use the inbuilt option to reduce canvas fingerprinting

[–] ElectricMachman@geostationary.orbiting.observer 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Deleting cookies on close? I had my Firefox set up to do that about 20 years ago

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 1 points 13 hours ago

Oh. Turns out I just wasn’t looking properly

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 1 points 13 hours ago

Pretty sure i saw it the other day and yeah me too on CAD

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 16 hours ago

Use two browsers. One for logins, the other dumps all data on close.