I use a Firefox addon named Cookie Monster. All cookies, not just third party cookies are blocked by default. When you come across a site where you need cookies

I use a Firefox addon named Cookie Monster. All cookies, not just third party cookies are blocked by default. When you come across a site where you need cookies, you select one of four options from the icon on the status bar: 1.) Temporarily allow cookies from example.com 2.) Accept cookies from example.com 3.) Reject cookies from example.com 4.) Accept session cookies from example.com For news.ycombinator.com, I selected option 4 the first time I needed to log in and it is persistent. The only time you ever need to accept cookies from a site, is when you're logging in to something, or buying something. And there's never any need to accept anything other than session cookies. You don't need cookies at all to browse news sites or blogs etc. This is an incredibly small amount of work. It is considerably less work than NoScript or RequestPolicy for example. And it provides so many benefits. Most days I don't even need to touch the Cookie Monster configuration. It's only when I sign up for something new or buy something from a new site, and it's a two second job, and I can usually recognise that I'm going to need to do it before anything even breaks. EDIT: Also, Firefox is set to completely clear my history on exit. Including history, cache and offline website data. I've never felt that doing this made my web browsing any more inconvenient.