Cookie-autodelete: Temporarily disable Auto-Clean

[dacav]

Describe the Bug/Feature

Scenario:

I want to buy a plane ticket. The procedure will redirect me to from the flight company website to the website of my bank, and later I get a further redirection to the flight company's website. I don't want to whitelist any of these sites, but at the same time I'm very likely to lose my session in between redirects.

I'm usually disabling Auto-Clean in this situation, but then I forget to re-enable it when I'm done with the transaction.

Feature:

Would it be feasible to have Autoclean Enable + Autoclean Temporarily Disabled + Autoclean Disabled as options?

[kennethtran93]

Does the greylist option not work for you? Greylist supposedly clear cookies upon browser restart.

[ke-d]

I agree, you are better off greylisting those sites, so it's automatic every time and you don't have to deal with toggling to Autoclean Temporarily Disabled.

[dacav]

It could be a solution. Next time I'll have to do a plane ticket or so, I'll try.

The only problem I can foresee is about redirections. Say A -> B -> C -> B -> A. You have to be aware of all of the sites. If you did not greylist B you would lose the session right after the B -> C redirection, and get a broken workflow with C -> B -> A.

[chiraag-nataraj]

I know this probably isn't that helpful, but I have a "FailSafe" profile which doesn't have any extensions and launches in permanent private browsing mode, which means any tracking only lasts for the session. I often find it easier to use that than try to figure out which of my myriad extensions in my normal profile might break the site :joy:

[Grossdm]

Am I overlooking something, or does this not have an obvious solution?

Just disabling the addon would solve this use case, would it not?

[kennethtran93]

Am I overlooking something, or does this not have an obvious solution?

Just disabling the addon would solve this use case, would it not?

There's a reason why we didn't mention that in the first place...
As from the first post:

_I'm usually disabling Auto-Clean in this situation, but then I forget to re-enable it when I'm done with the transaction._

[kennethtran93]

A similar feature request has been made in #535. Closing this one for that as that may just be a better solution if we do implement it.