Bug#838339: Firefox no longer prompts for cookie storage choices

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Tue Sep 20 05:33:38 UTC 2016


Package: firefox-esr
Version: 45.3.0esr-1~deb8u1
Tags: security
Severity: important

I just realized that Firefox no longer prompts how to treat cookies.
I had configured “Ask always” in my profile, and that option is now
gone, and so are the prompts.  (Which gradually vanished over time
once I had record preferences for the sites I visit regularly.)

As a result, Firefox covertly opted me in to full-scale web tracking,
which is not really nice.

Related: <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1101070>



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