[SUPPORT] difference between *.github.com and github.com

[albotroz]

I've read FAQ but I don't see a explanation about the difference between url.
For example with github:

• github.com
• *.github.com

If I add github.com on whitelist what are benefits and disadvantages to *.github.com?

[kennethtran93]

The explanation can be found here: https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/wiki/Documentation#enter-expression.

Simply put, github.com only keeps cookies and other data from that domain only, NO subdomains (e.g. subdomain.github.com).
Whereas *.github.com keeps cookies and other data from github.com as well as any/all subdomains.

The benefits/disadvantages will depend on each site and how subdomains are used.

If you trust that domain and all its subdomains, then use *.domain.com and all cookies under that domain and subdomains will be either kept or removed on restart.

Otherwise, or to be more secure, you'll need to keep track of which subdomain you want to keep cookies for, so you may have entries such as keep.domain.com, domain.com, test.domain.com on your lists, to which cookies and other data from non-listed sites, such as second.domain.com will be removed.

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