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Bug 300347 - Icon to allow/disallow easily cookies on a website.
Icon to allow/disallow easily cookies on a website.
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: General
git master
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Marco Pesenti Gritti
: 337084 525666 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 337826
Blocks: 755292
 
 
Reported: 2005-04-12 15:42 UTC by Lionel Dricot
Modified: 2015-09-30 12:22 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Lionel Dricot 2005-04-12 15:42:33 UTC 
The main idea is to do for cookies what Epiphany does for popups.

If you set the preferences to never accept cookies, each time a site try to send
a cookie, a little cookie icon with a red cross is displayed in the bottom left.

Double clicking on it change the red cross by a green "V" and now accept cookies
from this specific website.

Right clicking on the icon give a menu with : 
- accepted cookies from this website
- refused cookies from this webpage

Clicking on one of those cookies change his status.


Well, this is an idea, but the main thing is to allow easily people who care
about privacy to refuse cookies and accept it when needed.
Comment 1 Reinout van Schouwen 2005-04-12 16:50:51 UTC 
See also http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany_2fFeatureDesign_2fSecurityAndPrivacy

Instead of a status bar icon, a notification area message could be considered.
Also we have to keep a11y in mind.

In the larger picture, I think we shouldn't just make separate functions for
cookies, poopups, javascript etc. but have a more generic per-webpage /
per-domain "privacy panel".
Comment 2 Lionel Dricot 2005-08-08 12:18:16 UTC 
http://extensions.geckozone.org/CookieButton/

CookieButton is a firefox extension that fit perfectly with my idea.
Comment 3 Gregory Leblanc 2006-05-05 03:27:16 UTC 
*** Bug 337084 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Reinout van Schouwen 2007-08-10 15:21:50 UTC 
adding dependency
Comment 5 Reinout van Schouwen 2008-07-10 14:01:49 UTC 
*** Bug 525666 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Michael Catanzaro 2015-09-30 12:22:48 UTC 
This might have been a good idea 10 years ago, but nowadays we have many other storage types that sites expect to never be blocked. So for the same reason we don't have a disable-js setting anymore, we won't be working on this.

If someone else wants to work on it, though, we could talk with the designers.