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What are cookies Phobos.apple.com?

I continue to get a flow of cookies from Apple such as a1165.phobos.apple.com. They all begin with an "a" and have 3 or 4 numbers, then the Phobos.apple.com.


The cookies can get deleted by me and they keep returning, adding more each day with the most being twelve. This seems to have started recently. The only new app I have added has been Crunch?


Any ideas what these cookies from Apple are for? I have the cookie setting to only sites visited.

iPad, iOS 5

Posted on Feb 28, 2012 7:15 AM

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Nov 5, 2014 9:47 AM in response to Derryl S

I have researched this on my husbands phone for 6 months off and on. Recently I started researching it on my phone bc this was not an issue on mine. I figured out a **** site that is the same domain you have listed. along with a lot more depending on how many times you click. I clicked 6 times on this site just to see and i have the one you listed, along with a1152.phobos.apple.com a963.phobos.apple.com a435.phobos.apple.com a651.phobos.apple.com a515.phobos.apple.com. So is this something you guys are doing? Any X-rated websites?

What are cookies Phobos.apple.com?

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