How to remove web sites from tracking

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How to remove web sites from tracking

I have 2 websites that I have been trying to remove from tracking my activity on my MacBook. I submitted this question before, and the suggestions to remove do not work. I have been clicking on the Safari link on the top left, click on preference, click remove, click clear history, then the same 2 websites reappear. It was suggested that I have some other download that is preventing me from removing, I have none. Any help that someone can suggest would be greatly appreciated by me. Thanks Very Very Much.

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), macOS Sierra (10.12.4)

Posted on Apr 4, 2017 5:16 AM

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Answer 1

John Galt

Level 10

155,420 points

Apr 4, 2017 8:02 PM in response to JSMM

Cookies and website data will be populated from sources other than the obvious open pages and tabs. They include Top Sites, Quick Website Searches, Search Engine Suggestions, Top Hits, Subscribed / Shared links and feeds and others. All of them are under your control, but you need to investigate each source.

Also, when you click "Remove All" it will take some time to delete all entries. The window will repopulate before it's finished removing everything, so let it take a moment or two to finish.

Safari for Mac: Search preferences in Safari

Website database storage is a separate matter. Using Safari's "Manage Website Data..." followed by "Remove All" does not remove databases created by websites. Those files are stored in

~/Library/Safari/Databases

If you want to delete them, navigate to that folder and drag its contents to the Trash.

Those Databases will return upon loading the websites that create them.

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Answer 2

cdhw

Level 4

3,594 points

Apr 4, 2017 7:49 PM in response to JSMM

Try the following:

Check (in Preferences...) that your home page is not set to one of these annoying sites. Also check your

Safari > Bookmarks > Show Favorites

to ensure that they have not been added as Favorites. If the have been, hold down the [ctrl] modifier key and mouseDown on the site's icon to show the contextual menu. Select 'Delete' from this.

C.

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Answer 3

JSMM Author

Level 1

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Apr 4, 2017 7:52 PM in response to cdhw

Thanks for your reply, you said to see if these sites are in favorites, they are not. You said to hold the control key and mouse down, then delete, the only thing that did with those steps you said to try, it turns the web sites blue, thats all it did, thanks anyway for trying

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Answer 4

Eric Root

Level 10

685,221 points

Jun 30, 2017 5:19 PM in response to RockStarNewYork

Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library.

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