Safari does not save cookies

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Safari does not save cookies

I'm running ElCap on a macbook pro. Safari will not save cookies from craigslist. I often hide ads that are not relevant to what I want. When I click to hide the ad, it disappears as it should. However when I close Safari and then reopen it, all the ads I have hidden are visible again. This does not happen in Chrome or Firefox. Will Apple ever get on the ball and make Safari work properly? I'm beginning to think apple hired a bunch of high school kids to cope apps for them... it's pathetic to the point that I'm slowly moving away from ALL stock apps.

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)

Posted on Jul 3, 2016 1:51 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 3, 2016 7:14 PM in response to ImaginaryKaos

Check your cookie ettings in Safari > Preferences > Privacy

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Answer 2

Jul 3, 2016 7:54 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

I have tired this. My setting is to allow ALL cookies, but it makes absolutely no difference. Safari will not save my choices. Chrome and Firefox have no problem saving which ads I have hidden and which are visible. I have even cleared all website data, but the problem persists. One would think for the PREMIUM price we pay for Apple products, they would work at least as good as 3rd party apps. I am slowly discovering this is not the case. As I said before, Apple must be hiring high school students to do their coding. The only explanation is Apple is refusing to make their apps conform to the industry standards.

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Jul 4, 2016 3:36 AM in response to ImaginaryKaos

Correct settings is :

if you want to disable cookies do always private browsing : an apple article is there Safari 8 (Yosemite): Use Private Browsing windows

screen shot will help you to set permanently private browsing .

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Answer 4

Jul 4, 2016 8:44 AM in response to appreciate

The "correct setting" does NOT work. I have tried them all. Safari "forgets" any settings for craigslist as soon as the browser closes... PERIOD. So, once again, I am trashing Safari in favor of a browser that uses industry standards for web browsing. Safari is just way too far behind current technology to be useful anymore. Apple may make great hardware, but they are becoming too far behind when it comes to software. It seems Apple is trying to force the industry to conform to Apple "standards" and this will eventually be their undoing. The world will move on while Apple dwells in the 90's

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Jul 4, 2016 9:04 AM in response to ImaginaryKaos

If major safari issues are there : Click on go > computer > macintosh HD > library > caches ( remove the entire contents of caches folder ) into trash .

Click on go > hold option key > library > safari ( remove the entire contents ) , caches , cookies , application support , saved application state contents , preferences > find com.apple.safari.plist and move them to trash .do not trash the folders only contents .

Restart from apple logo & empty the trash .

Note : if any anti virus , third party software or an unidentified app is installed it will always create issues in safari .

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