Some web sites are persistent in tracking me. The "Manage Web Site Data" option shows these sites. Usually, I can remove them. Is there a way to eliminate their tracking permanently?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS Sierra (10.12.4), memory: 8 GB
Me to ?!!!! Every time I go back to delete it there are there and clearly state they arnt sites I go to 😟 & my gmail & Facebook army secure I just go in circles trying to secure them ? I pray & hope Apple will help us with this bc we all deserve security & confidant in our phone carriers. 🙏
As per this article : Safari for Mac: Privacy preferences in Safari
Website use of location services | Websites can use information about your location (based on data from nearby Wi-Fi networks) to provide services and features. Specify how often Safari must ask you if a website can use your location information. If you don’t want to be asked, select “Deny without prompting.” | ||||||||||
Website tracking: Ask websites not to track me | Some websites keep track of your browsing activities when they serve you content, which enables them to tailor what they present to you. You can have Safari ask sites and their third party content providers (including advertisers) not to track you. With this option turned on, each time Safari fetches content from a website, Safari adds a request not to track you, but it’s up to the website to honor this request. | ||||||||||
As the 2nd article points out, they are capable of regenerating after deletion with files that go to many parts of the system.
Safari/Browsers – can’t delete cookies
The myth of the dangerous cookie
Quit Safari.
In Finder go to Go menu and then Go to Folder.
Copy and paste this ~/Library/Safari/Databases.
Delete the contents of the folder.
Launch Safari again and check if all is ok.
If that doesn’t work, copy and paste this ~/Library/Safari/LocalStorage.
Delete the contents of the folder.
Then go to Safari/History and delete any entries for the related websites.
Test.
Safari/Preferences/Advanced - enable the Develop menu, then go there and Empty Caches. Quit/reopen Safari and test. Then try Safari/History/Show History and delete all history items. Quit/reopen Safari and test. You can also try try Safari/Clear History…. The down side is it clears all cookies. Doing this may cause some sites to no longer recognize your computer as one that has visited the web site. 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/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db and move it to the trash.
Go to Safari Preferences/Extensions and turn all extensions off. Test. If okay, turn the extensions on one by one until you figure out what extension is causing the problem.
Safari Corruption See post by Linc Davis
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That is so much ? N I don’t own a computer or have WiFi ? I need to update my phone but this is really hard to ignore it’s very persistent 😢
Thanks, Had tried "Remove all Website Data" in Preferences > Private; and clearing history and checking Extensions - non worked.
Tried deleting Databases as you suggested - didn't work. Then deleted LocalStorage as well and it seems to have done the trick.
many thanks - hope it satys this way
Hi Eric, unfortunately a load just came back again, again - most persistent is MacKeeper but from this webpage:
Any other suggestions would be great or should I just avoid using Safari? Other browsers do not seem to be affected
Your solution worked perfectly. Thanks.
You are welcome.
Web Site Tracking
