{"id":519,"date":"2010-04-03T10:05:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T09:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/?p=519"},"modified":"2025-02-01T03:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:04:15","slug":"wanted-cookie-categories-in-web-browsers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2010\/04\/03\/wanted-cookie-categories-in-web-browsers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted: Cookie categories in web browsers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given that I delete my browser cookies fairly regularly, it would be useful to be able to divide them into categories.Then I could delete marketing and tracking cookies without affecting more important login cookies.<\/p>\n<p>Some categories I would like:<\/p>\n<p>1) Always delete at end of session (for security critical things)<\/p>\n<p>2) Use standard rules<\/p>\n<p>3) Delete at interval<\/p>\n<p>4) Don&#8217;t delete unless I tell you<\/p>\n<p>This is sort of confusing the idea of being able to delete cookies by category with overriding the default rules on expiry, but it mostly gives the idea.<\/p>\n<p>I think what I really want is a function called <strong>Delete unwanted cookies<\/strong> which would magically determine which cookies I want to retain and which I want to delete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that I delete my browser cookies fairly regularly, it would be useful to be able to divide them into categories.Then I could delete marketing and tracking cookies without affecting more important login cookies. Some categories I would like: 1) Always delete at end of session (for security critical things) 2) Use standard rules 3) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}