1846507 - Separate cookies from site data

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Toolkit :: Data Sanitization, enhancement)

Description

[AvidSeeker]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0

Steps to reproduce:

Many messaging services save hundreds of megabytes as caches messages and media. The user intent to add the site to "cookie exceptions" might be to only save credentials but not cached media.

Here's an example: . User cannot remove cached media without removing saved credentials.

Comment 1

[AvidSeeker]

Attachment: clearing-cookies-example.jpg

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Audio/Video: Playback' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 3

[Emma Zühlcke [:emz]]

From a privacy perspective we should not separate cookies, storages and even caches. They can all be used to store data and thus should all be either cleared or kept.
If you want to clear data for non privacy reasons, cookies & storage should still be grouped since otherwise it may break website state for sites that don't expect partial clearing. Caches seem safe to clear separately, but we currently don't have an exception mechanism just for caches and building that isn't trivial.

Comment 4

[Emma Zühlcke [:emz]]

Kershaw, since this is not specifically about cookies, but also storages and cache I'm moving it to Data Sanitization. Feel free to move it back if you disagree!

Comment 5

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

The product::component has been changed since the backlog priority was decided, so we're resetting it.
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