Cookies set to "Never" but Safari now accepts all cookies anyway

Normally, I set Safari's Security Preferences to disallow cookies. I enable the acceptance of cookies on a case by case basis. But with Safaris version 5.0.5, all cookies are accepted regardless of the Security setting.

I hope Apple fixes Safari very soon.

Silkroad,

As I explained, I used Safari for general browsing (with cookies set to "never") and used FireFox for sites that need cookies (such as financial sites) and have FireFox set to flush all data upon exiting. I'm now using Opera for general browsing, and will switch back to Safari when Apple fixes this. Unrelated, Opera is very useful on the iPhone, because you can turn images off, which makes pages load faster and helps keep me below the paltry 200mb data limit.

Silkroad wrote:

My point is, I am very sure Apple knows about this (they really are the best in the business), and will fix it quickly. The fact that ME.COM is so strict about cookies is actually a good thing -- confirmation yet again of just how good Apple's code guys are.

I love my Mac, and I preferred Safari over any other browser until it started accepting cookies without my permission. I found a workaround for that---by toggling "private browsing" on and off when I first opened Safari, cookies stopped loading. But then I discovered Safari was doing other things like loading databases without asking permission.

At that point, Safari became un-usable for me because I can't be sure it won't open "safe" downloads. I can't be sure autocomplete is disabled.

I tried all the conventional fixes. I tried trashing preferences. I tried disabling extensions (AdBlock and Ghostery are the only extensions I have). I tried the Combo Update. I tried reinstalling Safari---but the download has not caught up with the recently updated operating system yet, and it won't install.

I lost confidence in Safari at that point. I got Google Chrome, and it's the default browser now, but I'm not particularly pleased with it. The support is wretched, and if I want to enjoy all the RSS feeds I had with Safari, I'll have to figure out how to use an online reader.

The problems with Safari appear to be associated with the MacDefender updates to Snow Leopard. Those updates seem to have destabilized the operating system just a tad. But in all honesty, I'm a little dismayed about it, and I've run out of time to troubleshoot.

I used the "report bugs" feature on Safari to report the problems I know I'm having with Safari, and I hope there will be an update soon to address Safari's instability.

Same thing here. Many cookies appearing even though I have the Accept Cookies preference set to "Never". Sites that used to require me to switch to "Only from sites I visit" now will will work with "Never". I've tried all the tricks mentioned to no avail, loosing all myURL favicons in the process of resetting Safari. The only thing that sort of works is toggling Private Browsing on/off at a Safari start up to a blank page. I sent Apple a bug report (from the Safari menu) but did not get any feedback of any kind. Waiting for the next Safari update or will we all have to transition to Lion before this is fixed?

F.Y.I.

I just installed the new Safari 5.1 and the problem with cookies continues to persist. Even with "Block Cookies" in Safari preferences set to NEVER, Safari always accepts cookies from web sites.

I am aware that setting Safari to "Private" mode blocks acceptance of cookies from web sites. But this is a coarse remedy in that visited sites are also blocked from Safai's History database.

I notified Apple of this Safari defect several weeks ago. So far, I have not seen a fix. The problem emerged with the 10.6.8 OS update. So, it might be related to the operating system rather than the Safari application.

Every time I open Safari, I discover another useless setting. RSS articles update on their own, cookies are set from places I've never visited, databases are loaded without permission---and now I discover Google Safe Browsing service isn't working. It hasn't been updated in 9 days.

So today, I tried installing Safari 5.1 to see if that might resolve something. It did not help. It is no better---it 's actually a little worse. Now toggling private browsing doesn't do a thing. So I can either accept all cookies (and who knows what else) or use private browsing.

That is unacceptable. It's also a possible security risk.

I'm hopeful (but in no way sure) someone at Apple is aware of the problem, but as things stand now, Google Chrome is the best answer for me.

It says "block cookies" and so one would check "always" if they never wanted cookies, no? This is backward from before, when it was "accept cookies" and you would say "never" when you never want cookies.

THE HITCH IS THE WORDING BEING CROSSED UP.

Ruined my entire day.

Yeah, it's only been a month and there have been about 3 fixes that don't work at all.....

But i'm sure they'll figure it out within the next 6 months or so.

Now all they have to do is figure out a way to stop adobe, quicken, and microsoft word products from being compromised because they wanted to bring back the App Launcher from 12 years ago in the new OS X Lion.

but it still accepts cookies anyway. Doesn't matter which one you click... All it does now is telling you more info about the cookies.

5.1 seems to be worse than the previous version. It may be the new way cookies are displayed but there seems to many more added when using the new Block cookies: Always button. I wonder how they test this function...they do test don't they?