I’m barely understanding this. May I ask a simple question, which would seem to be the bottom line point for me: In using CCleaner to manage cookies, Is it a good idea to move these partitionKey cookies into the keep column so that they are not deleted when the junk cookies are cleaned out?
I mean that’s a personal decision. If you want to keep the information tied to the cookies then move to cookies to keep, if you don’t, leave them be and CCleaner will clean them.
Thanks, @Nergal. But this raises a further question: How do I know what information is tied to these partitionKey cookies? So far I have no way of knowing what information they carry, though I would only consider keeping cookies from sites I use frequently and have a fair level of trust.
same as any cookie: login info, site preferences, visit counts, etc.
only difference between supercookies and cookies is persistence and location.
You do realise that the thread where this current question was started was a thread from Feb 2021, talking about Firefox 85?
I’m not at all surprised that @LN108 had trouble relating that discussion to the current Firefox.
Firefox is now at v132.01, and cookie management in Firefox has changed a number of times since v85.
I’ve moved the posts made today to this new thread.
Changed title from Firefox cookies to Firefox super cookies to better refelct the question
Thanks, @nukecad and @Nergal, for sorting this out. Sadly, I remain confused. I use CCleaner primarily for the purpose of clearing out unfriendly and unnecessary cookies while retaining useful cookies, i.e., cookies that add functionality or convenience to sites I use frequently.
So what I’m trying to find out is whether it’s a good idea to retain these partitionKey cookies from sites that I use frequently and regard as more or less friendly. And, if I retain the partitionKey cookie from a site, do I need to retain other cookies from that site?
Treat them as cookies, we can’t tell you the answer because it’s your choice based on your usage. They are cookies so if you, for instance, want to stay signed into google and have google ad tracking you then keep google’s cookies super and regular (i think it is already bundled by CCleaner to one entry as it is with different browsers)
Where do you get this word, all i can find having to do with that word has to do with Microsoft Azure and encryption keys
Is this what you mean?
Title changed again 
@Nergal - I see it for some sites in CCleaner. Here’s an example for calendly (with asterisks added 'cause this forum, oddly, doesn’t allow links):
calendly.c**^partitionKey=%28https%2Cgoodstack.io%29
If you want goodstack .io to record your tracks keep it. Figuring out you meant these new seperated cookies not supercookies as your initial thread was, has not changed my answer.
The thing is that browsers these days are constantly changing how they handle different types of cookies making it difficult to keep up with the changes that they make.
Cleaners try to keep up, but they are a moving target and the locations to be cleaned seemingly change each month as the browser updates.
In some cases even the browser itself can’t keep up with it’s own changes.
eg. I have my Firefox set to delete all cookies on exit, but since changes were made to how it stores cetrain types of cookies it is no longer removing them all, particularly some of those now stored in ‘cookie-jars’ as well as some of the newer changes to cookie management and storage…
(I catch some of the extra ones with my own cleaner batch file, CCleaner can sometimes find a few more than my own cleaner did).
PS. As a new member you won’t be able to post any images or weblinks yet, see this for why not:
Can’t post an Image or a Weblink?