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I have deleted cookies via preferences - security - show cookies - erase all cookies
But after some minutes they all show up again. What can I do to delete them completely?
Thanks for your help!
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Don't visit the web sites that create them.
Eww,
The cookies return even though I do not visit the same sites.... so I seems to be that deleting cookies through "preferences - security - show cookies - delete all cookies" is not the correct way to delete the cookies completely. Any suggestion?
Yes, that is a correct way to delete all the cookies. Cookies can only be set by web sites that you visit, so you don't have any cookies from web sites you haven't visited.
eww wrote:
Cookies can only be set by web sites that you visit, so you don't have any cookies from web sites you haven't visited.
Cookies can come from sites that a person hasn't visited neither, and Facebook is tracking users of web sites they visit even AFTER they have logged out of FaceBook.
Safari likely recreates the cookies even after a user deletes them because of HTML 5, or perhaps with TopSites. Just started occuring too, like in the last few issues.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/09/rldguid-tracking-cookies-in-safari-dat abase-form.ars
HTML 5 is bringing a whole host of spyware possibilities...
https://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/082010-html5-raises-new-security.html
Also there is a thing called a Evercookie, which is based in Javascript and can recreate cookies from any other cookie already on the machine.
And of course Flash cookies are well known now
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Local_Shared_Object
WebBugs too
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Web_bug
One has to use Firefox and the add-ons called Click&Clean, BetterPrivacy along with Ghostery, Ad Block Plus.
NoScript to prevent scripts from running automatically, one has to drag a "Temporaily Allow" button up to the toolbar to click it on "safe" sites.
I trust the independent developers working to keep their FF add-ons current to combat the latest privacy threats, as Firefox is more "the browser for the users" than any other.
It's getting insane trying to keep one's machine clean, and iOS users have no chance in heck as they are closed devices.
I am just going through this issue myself.
It seems that Safari 7.02 can't be trusted in erasing cookies.
I used to be able to use Reset Safari from the Safari menu, but I have 25 cookies re-appearing again and again even if I delete them, from Preferences/Privacy or reset Safari.
Is this going to be the reason for me to change browser?
How can I prevent deleted cookies from coming back?
