Privacy Browser Android

This will also allow for the deletion of only cookies from one domain if desired.

There actually is a way to retrieve all cookies without using a custom WebView.

https://developer.android.com/reference/java/net/CookieStore.html#getCookies()

The plan is to implement fine-graned cookie settings in 3.x after tabs.

I have never executed clear & exit function btw.
Does it also clear the cookies enabled under domain settings?

Unless you have changed the defaults, every time you close the last tab Clear and Exit is run. As described under the Local Storage tab in the Guide inside Privacy Browser, it clears all cookies.

Soren Stoutner wrote in #note-11:

As described under the Local Storage tab in the Guide inside Privacy Browser, it clears all cookies.

"All cookies" in the sense all ? I did close the last lab many times but the cookies I enabled permanently from domain settings never cleared. I don't understand what you mean btw.

No I actually disabled it, thinking it would also clear my domain enabled cookies.

If you disable them then Privacy Browser will no longer be clearing any cookies of any sort.

Soren Stoutner wrote in #note-15:

If you disable them then Privacy Browser will no longer be clearing any cookies of any sort.

Would cookies also not clear when I close the last tab ? (while all clear toggles disabled from settings)
Asking caz you said clear & exit will get executed no matter whether it's enabled in settings or not.

Clear and Exit does whatever is selected in the settings. If you disable the clearing of cookies (the second option in the screenshot above), then when Clear and Exit runs when the last tab is closed it does not clear the cookies.

I've tried it & now lost all the cookies (including that of domain settings) which is not what I expected.

My aim was to clear only the cookies of the sites that I've temporarily enabled before.

The sites that wouldn't work without it, I needed to temporarily enable them. Then those sites will store cookie strings permanently in the local storage even if enabled temporarily.

I know this because the next time I visit that site, & enable cookies again, it knows what preferences I stored last time. That means even if I enabled cookies temporarily, they do get stored in local storage. The only way to clear, is to clear data from menu, right before closing the site (which a lot of users forget to do).

Privacy Browser currently doesn't have any way to only delete some cookies. It either deletes all of them or none of them. Clearing them from the options menu deletes all cookies, just like running Clear and Exit, not just the ones from the domain currently displayed in the tab.

Making it possible to delete some cookies while retaining others is the entire purpose of this feature request.

And yes, disabling cookies doesn't delete them (and was never supposed to). It turns off access to cookies, but they are still stored in the cookies database.

At least how about this ? :

Clear cookies automatically the moment you close a tab, when the domain setting doesn't exist for the page you temporarily enabled.

This is important, caz a user enables cookies temporarily without adding domain settings, because the user expects it to last only for that session. Unfortunately this is not the case.

This is an issue, because the moment you aren't using clear & exit, the browser completely drops the private session & starts filling up the cookie file.

The planned implementation is more sophisticated than that, because sometimes you want to keep one cookie from a website while deleting others.

For an idea of what I would like to do, you can look at how Privacy Browser PC implements durable cookies.

I wanted to try the PC version, but it's strictly debian exclusive. Even if it exist on flabhub, I would've tried it.

I mean, even a simple implementation is fine too. Such as making the sites of domain settings an exception while executing clear & exit.

I don't think you appreciate how limited the cookie controls that WebView presents are. If it were easy to do what you are suggesting I would have already done it.

I do apologize the lack of my understanding & expertise. I've thought of this to be simple implementation, because you've already managed to minimise the browsing data to such an extent in the first place.

Cookies are an important data to be managed right? Which is why I'm giving a bit of emphasis.

Btw, does webview provide cookie isolation ?