Why is there a huge increase in cookie placement after upgrade to Safari 9.0?

When you go to Safari Preference, then the Privacy tab, you will see a phrase under the Remove All Website Data button that tells how many websites have "stored cookies or other data" -- click the Details button next to that and you will see a list of those sites. Remove the ones that you want.

Hmm. Now it's there — when I asked the question a couple of hours ago, there was nothing underneath said button, just blank space.

Excuse me, but my question was posed to Carolyn, whose comment mentioned something that I could not find in my Preferences. Someone else was kind enough to answer it for me. As the overall point of this thread had to do with cookies, I felt it was appropriate to ask Carolyn for assistance.

This is in response to Pinkstones' comment that "there was nothing underneath said button, just blank space" when referring to removing website data: I should have mentioned that if you don't see anything under the Remove All Website Data button just wait a minute for the number of websites and Details button to appear. I think if there is a lot of stuff there it takes a bit of time to generate the list. If there are only a few items the Details button appears pretty instantaneously.

As to nhuser's comment, I sometimes feel like these threads lose their way but I think Pinstones' question was relevant to this subject. If I didn't know how to get rid of all the unwanted website data I would've been frantically searching the forum, so I think it was nice to get the questions answered here.

I checked out the Safari 9 upgrade site (where they show what the upgrade is supposed to accomplish), and I came across something that may explain why we have all these caches showing up. There is a section that concerns 3rd party cookies and other stuff hiding in the normal cookies of the websites we visit. The fix was to 'parse' these. It's possible that what we are seeing is not a barrage of new and unwanted caches and cookies, but the hidden stuff that was there all along, but now separated and displayed in the website data box. It would certainly explain the 30 or 40 different Google caches that I never knew existed before now. I contacted Apple Support to see if this is correct, and I'm waiting to hear back from them. If this is indeed the case, maybe there's a procedure for dealing with it that's better than what we're doing now.

please let us know if they confirm that this is the case. I'd feel better knowing this but at the same time still dislike the idea of all of it showing up. I love mac/apple for the their standard of keeping everything clean, precise, and not all convoluted as all these cookies have become!

Got pretty much the standard boilerplate reply. Empty caches, clear history, etc, and that's about it. Ah well, it was worth asking about. Sorry!

Just installed Safari 9.0.1 and no difference in cookies - They continue to show up with the 'Always block' checked.

I have the same problem. Safari let cookies from anywhere, even from sites I didn't visit. I have normally like 20 to 30 cookies, but now there's like 150 !!!

If I try to delete them, they come back just after hitting the delete key, it work the second time though, which show that it's a bug, and a serious one!

The latest updates from yesterday, 9.0.1 (10601.2.7.2) doesn't correct this issue.

I'm on Yosemite 10.10.5

Safari’s “Private Browsing” works surprisingly well as an option for me with almost no cookies at all. I tried that after trying probably every tip out there on this cookie issue and nothing helped. I obviously need to log into some websites more but that’s rare for me and with Keychain that’s easier than frequently deleting huge amounts of cookies. All the many types of websites I go to work perfectly fine too without cookies, made me realize how useless most cookies are for me.

Command+Shift+N or File > New Private Window.

Preferences - General - “Safari opens with” - “A new private window.”

The info on private browsing below Toolbar disappears when going to a website.

Some features are obviously not available in private mode, nothing that affects my needs but will for some people I suppose. All info on it here: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21413?locale=en_US

Safari 9.0.3

El Capitan 10.11.3

Please disregard previous post, I wanted to edit mistakes or delete it but it was past the 15 minutes window so had to post this again.

Safari’s “Private Browsing” works surprisingly well as an option for me with almost no cookies at all. I tried that after trying probably every tip out there and nothing helped. I obviously need to log into some websites more but for me that’s rare and with Keychain that’s easier than frequently deleting huge amounts of cookies. All the many types of websites I go to work perfectly fine too without cookies.

Command+Shift+N, or

File > New Private Window

Safari > Preferences, General, “Safari opens with” - “A new private window”

Safari > Preferences, Privacy, Cookies and website data - "Allow from current website only" but I only had problems with "Always block".

The info on private browsing below Toolbar disappears when going to a website.

Some features are obviously not available in private mode, nothing that affects my needs but will for some people I suppose. All info on it here: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21413?locale=en_US

Safari 9.0.3

El Capitan 10.11.3