cookies keep coming even when not supposed to

Ok. It doesn't matter if your Mac is new or old. It seems Apple has lonly a little bit more respect for your privacy than Facebook. I have a suped up Macbook 6.1 2009 running Lion 10.7.3 through Safari 6.0

I am about as up - to - date as I can get without downloading Mountain Lion.

Private browser works to keep you traacks hidden from others on a nerwork but I still get all of the cookies in verbatim. I can not even 'Empty Cache" anymore now that Apple has prepped my OS for Mountain Lion. BUT in Safari>Preferences>Privacy I can "Ask websites not to track me" and ... "prevent search engine from providing suggestions". Neither of these are working either. Most (not ALL) of the time when I do a search with either Google, Bing or Yahoo, (all of whom are in my address bar now) and I clic on one of the search results I can not back up and return to the search results page. I have to start the search all over. As well the eraser in Mail doesn't work either.

I am going to report these things as Bugs to Apple and sit back to see how people react to Mountain Lion for a while. My question to Apple has an answer we all Know. And the question = what IF I don't want to sync my Apple devices with my Mac at all?

My Mac now automatically (via AppleScript) Resets Safari at login each day. I have ticked most Reset boxes so that it removes most things. As I said earlier I have removed the search box from the address box on my Toolbar. With these modifications my Safari 5.0.6 works very well.

Have you considered moving to Ubuntu?

Thank you Neville, but I do not have the knowledge/skill to make those changes. I am going to have to learn how to remove Google from that address bar but this 'Applescript' sounds way over my head.

So I am better of to bring my Macbook into the iWorld store (Regina, SK) and have them do what I am not able to (and Apple Store is not allowed to).

We have an iWorld Store 1.5 hours drive west of me which will perform what you have done but I am not so sure it is a good idea with my Macbook considering that my Lion is OS X 10.7.4 and my Safari is 6.0. Sounds like Apple altered everyone's devices for the Mountain Lion OS.

I am assuming that you are situated either in the UK, Australia, Newzealand or in the USA. For your information, google or Wiki "Saskatchewan".

PS: I still have the Boxed set of (32 and 64) disks for Mandriva Linux OS. I moved to Mandriva from Microsoft about four years ago then finally to Apple on 2009. I am waiting for Seagate to come out with the 1tb Momentus XT so I can split it between Linux and Apple. I now have a 500gb Seagate Momentus XT in this 2009 Macbook. TY once again.

I'm no at all happy with the latest version of Safari.

1. I don't like the way it has 3 Apple cookies to track what I do, and if I go to private browsing, I can't access many of the sites that I go to.

2. Even if I clear my cache or start up Safari, I have at least 25-40 cookies!

Is it just me, or is everyone starting to gather information (just like Facebook) to then sell the data?

I changed to Safari Version 6 because the previous version would crash at least once every day.

Bah!

I think you misunderstand cookies. They are not permitted to move information from one site to another. They can only remember what a particular site records. They then restrict future access to that one site. for example they can record your preferences for that site and remember which pages on that site you visited.

As far as I am aware it was only Google who recently contrived to go beyond this.

There is now a new form of cookie equivalent called local storage but nobody bothers about it because they are not aware of it!

Actually I Am aware of LSO's and persistant cookies and do not like their existance especially on my Mac. Smart phone are next or are already being bombarded with cookies of evey kind, "To make it easier to sign in" the nrxt time you visit a page is a worn out excuse today. I don't like them. When the Pentagon's dilike of cookies hit the media a couple years ago I cancelled Net Flicks and explained to them exactly why. They were not happy about it. My next piece of hardware is a Seagate 'Satellite' so that I can store 500gb of movies, docs and courses and watch/listen to them after work in a work-camp setting offline thereby avoiding getting my Mac dirty from the poorly run WiFi systems in these camps.

Thanks again

PS: I don't think I will be downloading Apple and I will do best without it.

Hello Neville,

Thanks for the explanation.

Now I better understand the cocept fo cookies, especially when I'm on E-Bay.

Stacey

Hi Dave,

Thanks for writing a reply to my cookies inquiry.

majortorut

(Stacey)

Cookie control is a matter of consumer choice. You are not forced to use Safari. Use a browser with cookie control that works. There are probably several. As far as I can tell Firefox does as it is instructed.

Selecting do not track is counter productive as it is controlled by cookies!

Hi Dave,

I have Safari 6 with OS X Mountain Lion.

I'm having a similar problem. No matter how many times I clear the cookies,I keep having cookies reappear.

Safari>>Preferences>>Remove All Website Data

If I start up Safari, I have anywhere form 8-33 cookies.

I have cookies from Facebook, and I'm not even a member of Facebook.

Then I read somewhere that cookies are located in "Local Storage".

I've had people recommend switching to another Browser.

What is actually going on?

My optional browser right now is Camino which I downloaded a couple weeks ago but I am going to take neville's advice and looking downloading one of the Firefox browsers tonight. I have plenty of room. I so wish I knew more about all of this stuff. I don't even know how to save anything to my 1tb external hard drive. Imagine that. One thing is for sure...I do know a little about cookies and don't them. And what I like less is my own ignorance on the subject of cookies. The only excuse I have is my lack of time to learn enough. L8R all. I'm going to look at Firefox. TTY L8R Thanks Neville. I will keep you informed on Firefox and cookies on my Macbook.

PS: Major, the cookies are supposed to be there. What they are Not supposed to be doing is Spying and tracking. They are used so that you computer can distinguish between your computer and another posing as you as well as for your computer to distinguish between sites and hijacked sites amongst other things which Neville might be able to clarify better and maybe even correct me on.

Camino is based upon an old version of Firefox. It is one of several Firefox based browsers. I use TenFourFox on my old Mac.

The following link is an easy to read description of cookies:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy/cookies/about/?source_url=/privacy/bbc-cookies-poli cy.shtml

This google search has 1,740,000,000 further links:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=cookies&as_qdr=all&newwindow=1&num=100

Why not use http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/31018/safari+cookies as recommended earlier on this thread? It appears to work very well although it only removes cookies when Safari quits.

It would not be difficult to write a few lines of code to delete all cookies as soon as they are downloaded. Writing code to do this selectively would be a much larger task. I am not sure it is possible to stop all cookies being downloaded but it is easy to inhibit access to particular web sites.

Delete Cookies

Introduction

Delete Cookies is for OS X only. There have been reports that some versions of Safari ignore user preferences to Never Accept Cookies. Users could use an AppleScript to Reset Safari at launch or install the excellent Safari Cookies to delete cookies when Safari quits. Delete Cookies is an alternative which deletes a user's cookies file as soon as a cookie is written to it. Apart from removing all cookies stored on disk it does not clash with other methods. None of these methods inhibit session cookies stored in RAM and hence, unlike the more effective Never Accept Cookies used by other browsers and earlier versions of Safari, they should not inhibit financial transactions.

Description

The Delete Cookies installer installs a new User Launch Agent which ensures that a user's cookies file is deleted as soon as a cookie is written to it. An administrator password is required for install and uninstall. Delete Cookies will be active immediately without the need to restart.

Installer

The installer:

1. disables any earlier versions of Delete Cookies
2. installs a new file at ~/Library/LaunchAgents/delete-cookies.plist
3. activates the new file

Uninstaller

The uninstaller:

1. disables Delete Cookies
2. deletes the file at ~/Library/LaunchAgents/delete-cookies.plist

Download

Delete Cookies can be downloaded from: http://links.zero.eu.org/os-x/delete-cookies/

Support

Please send comments and reports of difficulties to Neville.

Oh that was you? I thought that Apple noticed that I downloaded Firefox and sent the Cookie to me. Thank you. But you'd think that Apple WAS displaying as though they Had installed Cookie in preferences. Ya know the law calls that fraud.Apple's true colours are really starting to show through and they.re not very pretty. You realize how easy Macs are to hack I imagine. Not much to it apparently. I was hacked this time last year.

I can get Firefox with it alreadt installed though so it seems. Firefox 14.0.1Gee sure is funny how so many of the stuff Firefox has is now popping up in my Safari Preferences. About time.