I normally delete undesired cookies after most internet sessions leaving only those that I frequently use. lately when I return to the "net" I see that there are 1249 cookies posted on my hard drive. How do I stop this activity? The number of 1249 cookies is constant and they usually are there when I start up and before Using any site other than Bing. My browser is Safari then to Bing for search, internet service from Comcast. iMac 10.9.5
You can turn off cookies in most browsers; however, some sites simply do not function without them. I use Firefox and have a choice of not allowing cookies; since it is too much trouble to keep allowing them on individual sites, I just do what you do: clean them out.
FWIW: how do you go about cleaning them out when done?
My concern is that someone(thing) is releasing 1249 cookies at a time to my hard drive and I do not know where they are coming from and I do not want to ever have that on my mac even for a minute. I thought there would be a number of people with this showing up as a problem. Turning off cookies would be a real interupter when browsing for something, for as you say they require cookies so many times. Thank you Babowa.
It might give us a clue if you explain exactly how you go about deleting them and what your settings are in your browser.
I delete by Safari...preferences....privacy...details....select all unneeded cookies then select remove.
Browser settings Block cookies from 3rd parties..... limit website access to location services...selected Deny without prompting
Website tracking......Ask websites not to track me
Smart search field...Provide No suggestions
I notice that if I go online under "private browsing" I do not get that load of cookies. I do not like to do it that way however.
My suspicion is the load of cookies comes from a site that I evidently use very frequently. And that is a small group...I will start looking at "cookie deposits" after each visit and perhaps I will eventually find the culprit. I am surprised that no one else is having this problem. Thanks again Babowa
Receiving 1249 "cookies" at a time
