Site permissions and data
A website must ask before it uses your camera, microphone, location or notifications. Acira remembers your answer for that site in that profile. You can see what a site holds, reset an answer, clear its data or forget the site completely.
When a site asks
Acira shows a question such as example.com wants your location, with the buttons Block, Allow and, for some requests, Allow this time.
| Choice | What happens |
|---|---|
| Allow | The site may use it. Acira remembers the answer for this site in this profile. |
| Block | The site may not use it. Acira remembers the answer. |
| Allow this time | Offered for camera, microphone, location, clipboard read, MIDI, pointer lock, keyboard lock, idle detection, speaker selection and local network requests. It lasts until the page goes to another site, reloads or closes. It is never saved. |
| Close the question | The site gets a no this time and Acira does not remember it. The site can ask again. |
Notifications, writing to the clipboard, several downloads and the embedded site data requests below are lasting choices, so they have no Allow this time. In a private window the question says Private window: this choice is forgotten when the window closes. A link reads Manage in site settings.
What a site can ask for
| Request | The question says |
|---|---|
| Camera, microphone, or both | wants to use your camera, microphone, or camera and microphone |
| Location | wants your location |
| Notifications | wants to send you notifications |
| Clipboard | wants to read your clipboard, or to write to it |
| MIDI devices | wants to use your MIDI devices, or have full control of them |
| Pointer and keyboard | wants to hide your pointer, or capture your keyboard |
| Idle detection | wants to know when you are idle |
| Speakers | wants to choose your speakers |
| Local network | wants to connect to devices on your local network, or to apps on this computer |
| Embedded site data | wants to use its saved data while embedded in another site, or on related sites |
| Several downloads | wants to download several files |
Sharing your screen, a window or a tab works differently. The page opens Acira's own picker, Choose what to share, and your choice there is the consent. Pop-up windows a page opens without a click or key press in the last few seconds are refused. A page that shows too many dialogs offers Don't allow this page to show more dialogs.
See what a site holds
- Open the site.
- Choose the button at the start of the address field. The panel is named Page information.
- Open Permissions and site data.
The panel shows:
- The connection state and Certificate details. See Dangerous pages and certificates.
- Protection for the site, including the count of blocked requests, and the Block scripts on this site switch. See Ads and trackers.
- Under Website data, the number of cookies and the storage size. Cookies cover the site's domain and its subdomains. Other storage covers the exact origin.
- Under Permissions, each saved answer with Allowed, Blocked or Ask, a note temporary where it applies, and a Reset button. If nothing is saved it says No saved permissions. New requests ask when needed.
Site data is available after the page has finished loading. On Acira's own pages the panel shows no site data.
Reset a permission
- In the panel, choose Reset next to the answer. It says Permission reset. Reload to end active access. The site asks again the next time.
- In Settings, open Settings › Privacy › Site permissions. Each row shows the site, the permission and Allowed or Blocked, with (once) for a temporary one. Choose Reset on a row or Reset all at the bottom.
Choices belong to this profile and to the site and page that asked. Resetting makes the site ask again. Reload the site to stop something that is already running. You cannot set an answer ahead of time from Settings. A site always asks before it uses anything.
Clear one site's data
- Open Permissions and site data in the Page information panel.
- Open Clear selected site data.
- Tick what to clear. Cookies and sign-ins and Local website storage are ticked to start. Cached files and Saved permissions are the other two.
- Choose Clear selected data…, then confirm in the dialog Clear site data.
The panel notes that you may be signed out. Bookmarks and downloaded files are kept. Reload the page to use the change. If some data could not be cleared, the panel says so.
Forget a site
Forget this site removes more than clearing data. It deletes the site's history, saved closed-tab entries, website data and permissions from this profile.
- In the Page information panel, choose Forget site….
- Choose Review site data to see the counts of history visits, closed tabs, saved navigation entries, cookies and saved permissions.
- Choose Forget this site and confirm.
It keeps bookmarks, downloaded files and download records, open tabs and their back and forward history, and your site filtering preferences. Open pages may create new data, so reload after clearing. You may be signed out across the site's whole cookie domain.
Clear everything for a profile
For all sites at once, use Settings › Privacy › Clear browsing data or Clear browsing data on exit. See Privacy settings.
Limits
- Permission answers are kept for each profile. They do not carry over to another profile or between a regular and a private window.
- Choosing Block stops a request, it does not hide that a site tried.
- Extensions have their own access, shown in a review dialog when you add them. See Extensions.
Last updated November 7, 2026