This is a simple extension for Chrome™, Microsoft Edge and Opera™ browsers that let you disable/enable cookies for the current domain (host).
Click once and you’ll disable cookies for the current site. Click again and cookies will be re-enabled.
There are some options available, but basically, the extension does just that (and not much more)
Once installed, here is how it works:
How It Works
To disable/enable cookies on current site — just click the button in the toolbar.
In order to disable cookies for current domain, an exception is added to the browser settings. This means that if you open the same site in other tab, cookies will be still disabled. You must click the extension icon again in order to re-enable cookies.
Options
Don’t forget to check the options page. There are some options that could be of interest:
- Auto reload page on enable/disable
- Add shortcut to the context menu
How to get to the options page?
To access the options page — right-click on the extension’s icon and select “Options”.
How to remove it?
Every now and then I get this question from users — somehow not everyone seems to know how to remove extensions from Chrome. If you don’t want this or any other extension — just right-click on the extension’s icon and select “Remove from Chrome”
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Version History:
What’s New in Version 2.0
🚀 Complete Rewrite for Manifest V3
The extension has been entirely made from scratch to comply with Chrome’s latest Manifest V3 requirements, which should future-proof it and keep it in the chrome web store.
🛠️ Removed Outdated Options
- Removed unusable cookie management options (since Chrome changed it’s behavior and I rewrote the core logic).
- Dropped the “localRules” feature due to limited relevance (in other words: I don’t see it as useful anymore).
✅ Improved Site Allow/Block Logic
- Fixed the logic to properly allow/block the current site when the “master switch” is off. This means that — when you disable cookies on chrome://settings/content/siteData page, it will properly detect cookies as disabled or enabled on current site
- New “UI logic” — If cookies are disabled for any reason on current tab, click on the icon will enable them (and explicitly allow if needed). That way extension should work seamlessly even if all cookies are disabled in Chrome’s updated settings.
⚡ Keyboard Shortcut Support Added
Quickly toggle cookie settings with the newly introduced keyboard shortcut. For Windows & Linux it’s Ctrl+Shift+K, for Mac – Cmd+Shift+K
That’s all for this revision. Feel free to write me if you find a bug or something.
version 1.3
Some useful options have been added thanks to Markus Birth (who contributed the changes):
- Wildcard functionality
Now you can set the extension to disable cookies not only on the current host but for all the subdomains too - Disable on both http:// and https:// versions of site
An option is now added to disable cookies on both http:// and https:// version of the site (so far those were treated as different sites) - Disable cookies for all ports instead of current port only
Again, until now the extension was working on current port only, but now you can set it to cover all ports
All the new options are available on the settings page.
(If you don’t remember how to access the settings — just right-click on the extensions icon and select “Options”)
As usual, there are some other small fixes here or there, mainly one potential bug with newest versions of Chrome where cookies was not always cleaned (at least Chrome Canary showed this behavior in my tests, but should be fixed now)
And that’s pretty much everything in this update. All other functionality remains the same.
version 1.2
This is bugfix release. The main changes are on the options page — some obsolete links to respective browser settings pages are now replaced with the new and proper ones.
In the last versions of Chrome the settings pages has been revamped and the Cookies settings are no longer placed where they used to be so we needed to fix the broken buttons.
The old shortcut to the cookies options was:
chrome://chrome/settings/contentExceptions#cookies
but in the latest versions of Chrome it’s now:
chrome://settings/content/cookies
The other small change is that we changed the links to our site (again — in the options page of the extension) from http://singleclickapps.com to https://singleclickapps.com (which should be the newer, safer way to access the web)
And that’s pretty much everything in this update. All other functionality remains the same.
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Last Updated: 29.Dec.2020