Vanilla Cookie Manager

A Cookie Whitelist Manager that helps protect your privacy. Automatically removes unwanted cookies.

What is Vanilla Cookie Manager?

Vanilla Cookie Manager is a Chrome extension that allows you to manage and whitelist cookies, ensuring your privacy while automatically removing unwanted cookies. It provides control over which cookies you want to keep, keeping out tracking cookies while allowing useful ones for web apps to function properly.

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2022-07-05

By: Christian Zangl

Users: 30,000+

Rating: 4.46 (735)

Version: 1.4.0 (Last updated: 2014-07-04)

Creation date: 2014-07-04

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

tabs
http://*/*
https://*/*
cookies

Size: 184.32K

URLs: Website

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Summary

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Cookies can be used for authentication, storing your site preferences or anything else that can be saved as text data. Unfortunately they can also be used to track you.

You could turn off cookies completely or just shut off third-party cookies. But that would also keep out useful cookies that many web apps rely upon to work (like Google Mail or Calendar).

With Vanilla you can select which cookies you want to keep on a whitelist. All unwanted cookies are deleted automatically (or manually if you prefer).

If you close your browser often, follow the "recommended usage" on the options page to get rid of unwanted cookies whenever you close Chrome. If you seldom close you browser you should let Vanilla automatically delete unwanted cookies after 30 minutes.

Review on Lifehacker: http://lifehacker.com/5693011/vanilla-whitelists-your-cookies-in-google-chrome

Here's a nice description on My Digital Life: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2010/12/01/vanilla-whitelists-cookies-for-google-chrome

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User reviews

Does not work. I selected 5 websites to whitelist (subdomains as well) and selected the option to protect whitelisted cookies but every time I close Chrome and reopen it, the whitelisted cookies have been deleted and I have to sign in again to all of the websites. I uninstalled the extension. "Cookie Keeper" used to work great but it no longer exists as an extension so I have to keep looking for something similar.

Rich O, 2022-06-05

Me encanta esta extensión. Es fácil de usar, muy fácil. Seleccionas un par de características entendibles por cualquier usuario 🤔 creo, y ya está, la extensión se encarga del resto 👍 ¡Cómo tiene que ser! 😊🤣

María del Carmen Magaña Otero, 2022-03-18

Clunky, not clear where to go or what to do, but even after setting a long list of whitelisted/protected apps, it simply didn't delete unwanted cookies. Ever. Even when specifically directing it to, and a popup saying "500 cookies removed" or whatever, still have thousands using gigabytes of space I had to remove manually.

senselocke, 2022-03-05

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Safety

Risk impact

Vanilla Cookie Manager is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Vanilla Cookie Manager if you trust the publisher.