Topic: Cookies in broswers - page 2. (Read 279 times)

Privacy and security are 2 different thing. Accepting privacy reduce your privacy, not your security. I don't know browser you use, but some browsers have option to reject 3rd party cookies and addons/extension to automatically delete cookies after you leave the website (obviously the addons/extension have whitelist/blacklist).

There is a way to block third-party cookies or all cookies on your Chrome browser for Android permanently.

Tap Menu > Settings > Site settings.
Tap Cookies.
Check Block third-party cookies.
Or, if you want to block all cookies, tap the slider to turn cookies off.

Please note that some websites will not work properly with blocked cookies. There are, for example, session cookies that are necessary on all websites that use some kind of user authentication (such as e-commerce websites, social networks, forums, etc.).

I think that browser cookies don't affect at all what happens with Electrum on your phone.

But if you want to sleep better, just buy the cheapest hardware wallet and put your money there. You may have to use Mycelium instead of Electrum on Android, you'll be able to use it also with your PC, as long as you made sure your Electrum is legit.

If you are using android phone you don't have to worry yourself about all these cookies stuffs, I've never used PC wallet for storing my coins since 2016, I've been using android phone since that time and till date I got not a single issue, all you have to do is stay away from phishing links and websites, android is more secured compare to PC

I manage to have electrum wallet on my mobile phone which I do use to make transaction frequently, I also have some others apps that I need to carefully protect on my mobile device. Anytime I broswe before, I can be able to reject the cookies the site I am accessing popped up for me to either accept or reject, I did always reject them because I know it can be used to track some information on my browser.

Recently I noticed the option to reject this cookies are no more there, out of 10 sites I visit, I may not even see the option again on the whole ten sites, I still do see it but I hardly see it, so the probability of me seeing the rejection option is very slim. There are some time I will have to make use of the site with the cookies pop up like that without clicking on accept, but it makes users experience not good, and also there are times I will not be able to read anything from the site without accepting the cookies. This makes me to ask this questions.

Is there a way to still reject the cookies that sites owners are somehow making mandatory
So is it safe to accept this cookies and yet my phone is safe? (I always think anything that track information on my broswer makes me not to have privacy)
Can my wallet and other apps and information be accessed by hackers on my device by accepting the cookies (I do not trust any site about this cookie thing) and I do visit the legit sites, not he fake ones.
Or should I just go to my broswer information to always clear the cookies? It will be effective but it can be tiring

If this can happen on mobile phones, it can also happen on computers to people using their computers to broswer always. It will be good to have effective solution to totally reject cookies.