Questions on browser cookies

If this is for Brave (or anything chromium), I don’t know of any option to view cookies individually.

Maybe there is a way to access their data in a legible way including browsing with a desktop, but I have never found chromium browser data to be that straightforward to go through even on desktop. On Firefox I have done this and there are extensions that lay them out graphically to do what you are describing. However I have not attempted this on mobile, and Firefox on mobile (assuming there is an extension for Android that lays out cookies nicely) is still troublesome.

Unless there is a killer option to conveniently go through cookies (I’d love to know!) I think your best option would be to autofill from a login manager if you are concerned. Even if you had the desktop Firefox convenience of touching cookies individually, it is another problem to identify which ones you want to keep and to keep it that way without checking every single time.

For the most part, the cookies you would save alongside login are supplements to identifying you as you are on that website, which is already clear since you are logged in. If other sites cannot access that (they shouldn’t by default I believe) then I would the possible threat should be very low. There are better javascript (and other) tactics to identify more on demand than looking at cookies. Unless you have an explicit concern it might not be worth your time to worry about this.

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