Forgetting about other subdomains?

[claytonrcarter]

Thanks for this extension. Clean, simple and effective. Love it!

Perhaps this is intended behavior, but I just used the extension while on www.buybuybaby.com (🙄🤷‍♂). That site sets cookies for www.buybuybaby.com, buybuybaby.com and offers.buybuybaby.com. The extension successfully nuked everything from www.buybuybaby.com and buybuybaby.com, but left the cookies for offers.buybuybaby.com.

It might not be desirable to always forget about other subdomains, but it would be nice to have the option to completely forget about an entire domain.

Thanks again!

[claytonrcarter]

Although I see here that domains and subdomains must be explicitly listed. This would probably mean that you'd have to search through all cookie & localStorage domains to find candidates, and that might end up being more trouble than it's worth.

[blaise-io]

Hi @claytonrcarter, apologies for my late reply, I somehow missed the Github notification for this issue.

I could analyze the current web page for cookies, media, frames, hyperlinks, scripts to find other subdomains. It's not that complex actually. The current web page may not include any content from that subdomain at that moment, so it's not bulletproof.

I'm not sure yet whether I can detect other subdomains by querying browser history, I will investigate that.

[i486]

I've been using your addon successfully on Firefox for last few weeks. But particular use case today had me confused because result was different between "Private Window" and "Forget about this site".
I blindly assumed that "Forget about this site" removes everything including subdomains but just realized now that it doesn't hence why i am here. Also, I found out that Firefox's own "Page Info > Security > Clear Cookies & Site Data" removes everything including subdomains.

Anyways, I switched to another cookie addon that removes subdomains because leaving subdomain cookies is huge no for my particular use case. But i'd switch back to using "Forget about this site" in a heartbeat if you add this feature in future because it's the best addon (tried dozens of addons and settled on yours) for the job. I liked how it adds little recycle bin icon just right to the address bar, how it meshes well with the dark mode and of course the most important one the ability to remove current site cookies with just one click.

So if you add this feature in future, please comment on here so i can get notification.