dude09 - How to Setup a Whitelist for Cookies

How to Setup a Whitelist for Cookies

Monday, 10. December 2007, 06:33:34

Today, I'm going to show you how to keep certain cookies that you want, & delete the rest of the tracking cookies automatically upon exiting Opera. I also provide a few buttons to make the routine a bit easier...

A. Setup Cookies Whitelist
1. First, go to Preferences (Ctrl+F12) > Advanced > Cookies & checked Delete new cookies when exiting Opera option. Hit OK once, & restart Opera. (restart Opera is optional, skip it if you want to keep some cookies)

2. Next, open a website that you want to keep it's cookies & go to Edit Site Preferences (F12/Context menu) > Cookies, then unchecked Delete new cookies when exiting Opera option. Hit OK to apply.
TIPS: Grab the Whitelist button from below to make this process simpler & quicker.

3. Now, repeat step 2 for other website that you want to whitelist it's cookies. Restart Opera after you're done. If you want to add new cookies to the whitelist in the future, just repeat step 2.

4. After restart, go to Preferences (Ctrl+F12) > Advanced > Cookies > Manage Cookies to make sure the whitelist is working properly. There should be ONLY the cookies that you want to keep - any cookies that's not whitelisted should be deleted upon exiting Opera. That's all.

B. Buttons
These buttons will simplify the whitelist process for you:
Button A: Whitelist
Single-click to add current domain into whitelist; Press & hold to remove current domain from whitelist.

Button B: Whitelist
Click button to add current domain into whitelist; Click arrow to remove current domain from whitelist.

C. Delete Private Data (DPD) & Whitelisted Cookies
After you setup a cookies whitelist, you can delete all cookies & kept the whitelisted cookies on demand with DPD. To do so, unchecked Delete all cookies option & checked Delete temporary cookies option under Detailed Options section inside DPD dialog. That's all!

Go here to get the DPD & Exit button
Go here for Tutorial for Block Cookies

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Comments

homeagain # 17. June 2008, 00:46

Very nice. I was just looking for something like this!

Anonymous # 14. October 2008, 05:53

Hardpack writes:

I've been looking for an Opera cookie manager for years. Your "button" is even better. Very much appreciated.Thanks

Opera-Browser-Fan # 10. March 2009, 16:06

Very useful, thank you very much !

It is 2 yrs after this thread, and Opera should definitely implement these features : white cookies, black cookies, and delete all cookies. It should not be difficult for Opera developers to do that, and the features are very much requested by many users including myself.

espirates # 18. March 2009, 11:34

Shouldn't these buttons select "accept cookes' vs "select only cookies from sites I visit" ?

They appear to mark the "select only cookies form sites I visit", this will not white list them unless the "accept cookies" is selected.

dude09 # 18. March 2009, 12:46

Are you using Mac? I have not tested these buttons in any Mac versions of Opera... So they probably won't work properly in Mac. They're suppose to un/checked the Delete new cookies when exiting Opera option.

espirates # 19. March 2009, 07:35

on Mac, yes, it does select/unselect the "delete new cookies", it also selects the "select only cookies from sites i visit". Perhaps it doesn't matter as long as the "delete new" is unchecked.

dude09 # 19. March 2009, 08:22

Hmm... This is weird! It shouldn't affect the settings for accepting cookies, are you sure it will changed the accepting cookies settings each time you use the button? Maybe you should try reset the ESP from the Server Manager & fetch the Whitelist button from above & test again...

If it's still doesn't work properly, then maybe you can take a screenshot of the ESP for Mac (without changing any settings) & let me take a look. Upload the picture to your photo album & send me the link through PM. I might be able to find out what goes wrong...

espirates # 20. March 2009, 16:27

I think the button did what it was suppose to do, I was just thinking it would select "accept cookies" in addition to "delete cookies on exit".

The button was working as per instruction, only recently, now the button isn't even working. The "delete cookies on exit" doesn't get unselected, strange, this was working before.

dude09 # 20. March 2009, 17:29

Make sure you "click" on the button to unchecked the option, not "press" on the button! Press & hold on the button will enabled the Delete new cookies when exiting Opera option...

espirates # 22. March 2009, 04:45

yes but it's not working for some reason, using 9.64 on mac, it's not selecting the "delete new cookes", I tried both buttons. Does this require any special settings in the preferences to get them to work ?

dude09 # 22. March 2009, 05:33

Delete new cookies when exiting Opera option will be unavailable (gray-out) if cookies function is disabled (set to Never accept cookies). Other than that, it should be working as usual...