Why other browsers don't let you choose cookies to keep?

[VA1DER]

As I've been migrating back to Pale Moon, I've fallen back in love with what seems to me to be a no-brainer feature of a browser. That is, the ability to specify on a site basis whether I want to allow its cookies, allow them for just a session, or deny them.

Chromium, and all its bastards....er....children... only allows you to accept all cookies permanently, or delete all cookies at the end of a session. There is no middle ground to retain, say, bank cookies. Or Wikipedia and other forum login cookies.

I wondered many times why in any Chromium-based browser this a) wasn't implemented, and b) why people didn't demand it.

I understand the first. While at times I chide myself for tinfoil-hat suspicions, I think it's probably reasonable to assume that Google wants to only pay lip-service to cookie security and wants all people to set their browsers to just accept all cookies permenently. This way it helps their advertising tracking. So they offer no middle ground. You can basically never have the benefit of a permanent cookie unless you let them all be permanent.

But it really astounded me that people just accepted it. I really wonder why this is.

[therube]

What OS do you use?

If Win10/11, what, you "just accept it" :evilgrin: .

[bSun0000]

Off-topic:

Why other browsers don't let you choose cookies to keep?

Consume, vote Reptilian.