I have reset safari, I have manually deleted them only to have them return before i'm done! I've gone to Adolbe flash site and set it to zero, but the safari cookies keep returning! Something corrupt? Help on this one please!
"The problem was in the safari plist file! It has been resolved now. Thanks to Macfix. "
Try going there (MacFixit) and seeing if you can find the information that the original poster apparently did. It is probably titled something like "permanently removing Safari cookies".
To those in this thread who have downplayed or pooh-poohed the cookie issue...
as far as I've read, the cookies can be used to track to your internet browsing habits, can gather data on what you are clicking on, what you are buying, etc. In fact, there have been recent adverts on how marketers are using them to tailor the ads and pricing you see when you visit various sites!
That may not bother the nay-sayers, but that's disturbing to many of us who value our privacy and do not want Big Brother gathering information about us!
What file exactly did you trash? Do you mean that upon trashing such file just once the problem did not recur?
I agree - this is a big problem. I go to site, cookies are loaded onto Safari. I delete such cookies using Safari preferences. I do not return to the site. Next thing you know - cookies are back!
I found a wonderful solution to keeping track of cookies.
It's called Safari Cookies and it's donationware. You can identify a set of favorite cookies and set it up so that preserves those, but deletes all the non-faves! Quite useful. You can even, during an online session, open up the prefs panel (it integrates right into Safari's preference dialog box), and have it delete the non-faves.
I should e-mail the developer... it'd be good if it would have a feature to automatically delete those non-faves every so many minutes-- or after moving to a different site.
I am using Safari Cookies now. It is helpful, but does not solve the underlying issue - which is that Safari simply re-inserts all cookies even after being deleted.
It does not appear to me that this add-on solves that problem at all.
I wasn't proposing it to solve the reappearing cookies problem, but rather as a general way of keeping track of cookies-- when they are added, which ones to keep, etc. It's instead of deleting the cookies plist as that will also remove the good cookies.
When you say that Safari reinserts all the cookies, do you mean that happens even if you are not connected to the internet and have not revisited those sites? Do you have more than one cookies folder/file?
Which version of Safari, which version of the Mac OS?
If there's not much to lose, what happens if you export your bookmarks (assuming that's all you want to preserve) and then delete all Safari related files and reinstall the latest version? I can't believe that they would come back then! Again, this is assuming you don't revisit the sites.
Well, let's say I go to a certain website:
www.whatever.com
and this website inserts various cookies into my Safari browser.
Well, let's say I even quit the browser, re-open it, and then specifically delete all cookies associated with this "whatever" site. And then even quit it again and NOT return to that "whatever" site. Doesn't matter what order I do this: but rest assured that I am deleting all cookies associated with a given site.
Well, even without returning to that site, the cookies reappear anyway, clearly visible in Safari preferences.
I thought at first it was some kind of blackhat "cookie stuffing" that this "whatever" site was pulling on me, but it seems to happen with ANY site - cookies cannot be permanently deleted with Safari, period.
I am running the latest versions of Safari and MAC OSX. Deleting the cookies plist makes no difference either - once I visit a site, the cookies are there to stay. At most, they might disappear for one or two windows of the browser. Always come back, without re-visiting the site.
I have cookies set to allow only from sites I visit.
Have you tried setting up a 2nd user account and running Safari from it? That way, you could see if the problem is one associated with your particular user account or with all of them. It could help you isolate the problem and help trouble-shoot this.
P.S. Yahoo cookies were marked as favorites, so they were not being deleted. But the issue was there anyway - Yahoo's constantly logging me out and asking me to log back in.
So, there is something problematic about this add on "Safari Cookies."
I have called Apple Care 5 times about this problem. My cookies re-appear within 1 hour of my deleting them. At first it started when i would delete 20 cookies...and 5 would re-appear. I had NOT re-visited those 5 sites. Now i can delete all the cookies and they will all re-appear. The support tech at Apple Care said that she had never cleaned out her cookies before. She was shocked when they all re-appeared while we were talking. She had me Reset Safari. Didn't work. They had me re-download Safari 4. Didn't help.
I was able to successfully delete cookies for 12 months before this "glitch" started. This is a recent problem. Apple has been very nice but they don't treat cookies as a very important problem. Most people never clean out their cookies ever. I clean them out every night. I don't want anyone "tracking" me. Even if i didn't care about tracking, i don't want those cookies on my computer.
I do keep cookies for sites i use often so that i don't have to "sign-in" every time i visit.
I am just starting to read your thread. If you hear of anything that works, i would like to hear about it. Thanks for the warning that Safari Cookies does not solve the problem.
