Is it possible to lock certain cookies, or save as favourites, the idea being that one could delete all cookies except for those sites that are visited often? Is there some kind of functionality built in to do this?
Thanks.
Hi Yavno,
Sadly, no. A whitelist feature, in Safari, would be a VERY welcome addition. As it stands, Remove and Remove All are the only two options. Hand-picking those you want to delete, while preserving those you want to keep, is painful at best. 🤨
With that said, I am not sure it is an oversight. Apple may not intend for users to actively delete these as frequently as I, and it sounds like you, are inclined to do. I notice that doing so skews the metrics that Safari reports in regards to cookies & trackers blocked. Also, I have noticed that after having done Remove All to wipe the list clean, I can return at some later point to find websites back on the list that I have, without doubt, not ever visited again. It would seem that the How and Where behind Safari's storage and retrieval of this information is more complex than that of other browsers, which may well make a whitelist function difficult to implement.
Hi Yavno,
Sadly, no. A whitelist feature, in Safari, would be a VERY welcome addition. As it stands, Remove and Remove All are the only two options. Hand-picking those you want to delete, while preserving those you want to keep, is painful at best. 🤨
With that said, I am not sure it is an oversight. Apple may not intend for users to actively delete these as frequently as I, and it sounds like you, are inclined to do. I notice that doing so skews the metrics that Safari reports in regards to cookies & trackers blocked. Also, I have noticed that after having done Remove All to wipe the list clean, I can return at some later point to find websites back on the list that I have, without doubt, not ever visited again. It would seem that the How and Where behind Safari's storage and retrieval of this information is more complex than that of other browsers, which may well make a whitelist function difficult to implement.
Thanks for the great response TrafGib.
It's much more complex than I would have thought. Looking at my cookies after cleaning them out earlier today, I indeed have some from sites which I remember were visited a couple weeks ago. It's very annoying, to say the least.
Lock/Favourite Safari Cookies?
