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Safari - web sites being added to my cache

Greetings! I have an IMac. I just upgraded to El Capitan and am using Safari 9.0. I do not use Facebook, Twitter, or anything Google-related, by design. Yet, whenever I am about to end a session on Safari and go into my Preferences -> Privacy and look at the Details of my website data, I always find a bunch of cookies and sites added to my cache that I did not visit and do not want. Many of them are related to Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, and various ad trackers. My questions are:

1) Are these things embedded in Safari 9?

2) If not, why do they keep invading my computer?

3) How can I prevent them from invading my computer?

I know it would be "easier" to just let things be, but I guess I'm just not ready to completely give up control of my on line experience to the likes of Google, etc.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Oct 5, 2015 7:23 AM

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LowenBehold

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Posted on Oct 5, 2015 11:28 AM

I have discovered the same issue this morning -- using El Capitan and Safari 9 on a late-2013 iMac. I have no solution yet, but one clue, perhaps: My Home Page is the U.S. National Weather Service 7-Day Forecast page for my area, and that page contains links to Facebook and Twitter, and so on. As a test, I changed my Home Page to one without apparent links to social media and info-mining; however, I need to return to test this more because I ran out of time, so, sorry that I have nothing conclusive at the moment. By the way, I had my weather Home Page open and the Safari Preferences open, and I was deleting the unwanted Google and Twitter, etc., cookies, but they were reappearing seconds after I deleted them! This was not occurring in Safari 8 and Yosemite.

Best Wishes. 🙂

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CMA Author

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Oct 7, 2015 9:01 AM in response to CMA

One more wrinkle...

I just found a few unwanted sites in my cache again! I was livid, and went to the "Develop" menu to see if the "Disable Caches" button was still checked. It was not. So... apparently you have to check "Disable Caches" every time you start a new session on Safari in order to keep the invaders out. I can do that. But geez, they sure make it hard to defeat them.

CMA Author

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Oct 7, 2015 10:59 AM in response to CMA

Another interesting wrinkle... Some of those invaders, like "doubleclick," are sneaking back in. They either say "local storage," or nothing at all. So even disabling the caches isn't foolproof. Sneaky little buggers.

njmbp14

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4 points

Oct 7, 2015 5:28 PM in response to CMA

Yep, Safari on Yosemite wasn't letting all those cookies in. I've tried AdBlock and AdBlock+ and that didn't help either. I can visit 2 or 3 sites and have 70 cookies. Even tried blocking them on OpenDNS and that didn't work.

Oct 7, 2015 6:57 PM in response to njmbp14

I am thinking that it's best just to leave Safari behind and use Firefox instead. The blocker I've chosen to use with Firefox is UBlock Origin (free add-on). I read about it at Wikipedia.

The problem with Safari has not been completely solved yet.

Safari - web sites being added to my cache