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User profile for user: jhmi
jhmi Author
User level: Level 1
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Allow limited third-party cookies?

A blog I frequent recently switched commenting to Disqus.com, which requires the browser to allow that site to install cookies (or otherwise access the cookies, I won't claim expertise here) even though I never actually visit that site. The upshot of this is that, in Safari, I must either allow all third party cookies or not comment. Firefox, which also had a helpful notice telling me that I needed to allow Disqus.com to use the cookies, allows one to specify specific URLs without having to allow every URL.

Can I do something similar in Safari? might the feature be available soon? is there some plug-in or other application which can overcome this obstacle?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.2), Safari 5.0.1 (6533.17.8)

Posted on Aug 25, 2010 4:52 AM

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User profile for user: Klaus1
Klaus1
User level: Level 9
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Aug 25, 2010 5:17 AM in response to jhmi

Not that I am aware of, but I have Cookie Preferences set to 'Accept cookies only for sites I visit', but I only wish to retain cookies for the sites i regularly visit, like these forums and others.

To that end I use a small app called SafariCookies:

http://sweetpproductions.com/safaricookies/

which only works on Leopard and Snow Leopard. This adds an item in Safari Preferences whereby you can automatically delete all cookies on shutdown, except those particular 'favourite' ones you wish to retain to avoid entering your user name and password each time you visit.

It would seem that Disqus want you to allow their advertisers to install cookies on your Mac. I would not allow them to do that.
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