Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Safari 12.0.3. How come Facebook can install their cookies constantly, even though I never visit any of their sites? Does not help if I remove them, they manage to install them within minutes again. I kindly ask Apple to let me as user to decide who may install cookies. Or open up a possibility for the user to block a cookie I decide.
MacBook, macOS 10.14
With the release of macOS Mojave 10.14, Apple stopped tight integration of Facebook with macOS.
But other sites a user visits, are integrated with Facebook.
Cookies that are added to website data folders come from those sites.
So it is not easy to stop these cookies from being stored.
Two measures a user can take to lessen the chances are:
1. Prevent tracking by these cookies
Section: Prevent third-party content providers from tracking you across websites
https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/prevent-websites-from-tracking-you-sfri40732/12.0/mac/10.14
2. Browse in Private mode
https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/browse-in-private-ibrw1069/12.0/mac/10.14
With the release of macOS Mojave 10.14, Apple stopped tight integration of Facebook with macOS.
But other sites a user visits, are integrated with Facebook.
Cookies that are added to website data folders come from those sites.
So it is not easy to stop these cookies from being stored.
Two measures a user can take to lessen the chances are:
1. Prevent tracking by these cookies
Section: Prevent third-party content providers from tracking you across websites
https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/prevent-websites-from-tracking-you-sfri40732/12.0/mac/10.14
2. Browse in Private mode
https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/browse-in-private-ibrw1069/12.0/mac/10.14
See if this helps.
As the 2nd article points out, they are capable of regenerating after deletion with files that go to many parts of the system.
Safari/Browsers – can’t delete cookies
The myth of the dangerous cookie
Quit Safari.
In Finder go to Go menu and then Go to Folder.
Copy and paste this ~/Library/Safari/Databases.
Delete the contents of the folder.
Launch Safari again and check if all is ok.
If that doesn’t work, copy and paste this ~/Library/Safari/LocalStorage.
Delete the contents of the folder.
Then go to Safari/History and delete any entries for the related websites.
Test.
