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Major Changes

• Update the classifier model. The new model is trained on data gathered from approximately 52k websites in July 2022, using the same method as before. This dataset consists of 490k cookies, compared to the previously used 302k (approximately ~62% increase).
• Introduce and update a large number of predefined cookie categories in the known_cookies.json file, fixing several websites with broken functionality.
• Add Spanish localization by 6ig6oy.
• Add Japanese localization by Shitennouji.
• Add Czech localization by Karel.

Minor Changes

• Fix display of default settings in setup page.
• Browser icon now changes to grayscale when cookie removal is paused.
• Make it possible to select and copy text in the extension pages.
• Add a button to categorize existing cookies to the popup.
• No longer autoclose the setup page when classifying existing cookies.
• Fix other minor issues in the extension UI.

Update extension to 1.0.0

Changes:

• Fix several issues with broken websites
• Rewrote the descriptions of the options page, cookie config and first time setup.
• Made the layout of said pages more concise and fix some issues with them.
• Replace deprecated extension.getURL() calls.
• Fix placeholder list entry in cookie config, and other minor issues.

Update extension to 0.9.0

Changes:

• Add JSON path for predefined cookie categories.
• Check correctness for domain exceptions.
• Add a new options page to change cookie categories manually. Also allows deletion and restoring of cookies.
• Update classifier models to a more recent version
• Slightly better formatting.
• More known cookie categories to reduce website breakages.

• Add more cookie exceptions to reduce breakage.
• Improve popup size.

• Fix warning that was raised with the Firefox submission.

• More changes to satisfy chrome webstore.
• Introduce IndexedDB to handle cookie history storage. Improves performance and fixes dumb issues.
• Made it possible to view a snapshot of the cookie history, filtered by category, in JSON format.
• Add feedback text and link.
• Improve German localization.
• Add debug timing to measure the performance of the classification.
• Remove recursion, make prediction iterative. Improves performance.
• Further improve performance by storing current settings in local variables, and only updating them once they change. No longer request them from storage.local or storage.sync every time they are needed.
• Increase default time until cookies are reclassified from 1 to 2 minutes.
• Restore local vars if they are undefined.
• Rename CSV files to .txt, change structure. Fixes problem with Opera submission.
• Bugfixes and error handling.

• Reduced the model file size to make the addon stores accept the package.

• Add consent toggle for cookie history, to comply with Firefox addon policy.
• Update the extension text and add full German localization.
• Add minimum time interval for classification.
• Repeat classifications will be skipped if cookie has been classified less than one minute ago.
• Restructure cookie storage to store cookies nested by domain,path,name
• Fix issues reported by linter.
• Update license, author and manifest.

• Make the extension compatible with Chromium browsers. This includes:
  • Chrome
  • Edge
  • Opera

• Fix broken "reset to defaults" button.