I remember at one point -- not sure exactly what year, I'd guess around 2010-2012 -- Firefox had a cookie option "ask me every time". It popped up a dialog each

I remember at one point -- not sure exactly what year, I'd guess around 2010-2012 -- Firefox had a cookie option "ask me every time". It popped up a dialog each time a site wanted to set a cookie, with options to accept, decline, and whitelist/blacklist the site that was asking. I used it for a week or two, maybe. I stopped because it made the web unbrowseable. If you think one banner per site is bad, imagine at least 5 consecutive popups to start, plus the possibility of more when you took any persistent action our the site loaded a new 3rd party resource. And if you don't choose the whitelist/blacklist option right away, it's the same thing the next time you visit. I stuck with it until it became clear that I was not going to run out of domains to whitelist -- ie, this was a never-ending workload -- and switched to accepting only first-party cookies. I don't think there was an option to decline 3rd party and ask for 1st party; I probably would have used it.