The Vanilla extension ca be considered a cookie whitelist manager designed to protect your privacy.
In essence, Vanilla can automatically remove unwanted cookies.
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.
Requirements:
· Google Chrome
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Added warning on options dialog (protected cookies).
