Alternative to Apple's all or none cookie approach?

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woodmeister50 Author

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Alternative to Apple's all or none cookie approach?

It seems ludicrous to me that Apple chose in the latest Safari

that disabling cookies means that you must delete all cookies!!!

When visiting a new site, it seemed always a good idea to temporarily

disable cookies until you were sure about a site or you visit a site where

you simply do not want a fistful of cookies thrown at you.

Now, if you do that, it totally wipes out your entire cookie history,

even those from benevolent sites, like logging in here which triggers

a two-level authorization because the cookies were wiped out.

Before anyone one says it, yes I have sent my displeasure to Apple via

the feedback site.

What I am asking here, is there any alternative other

than use a different browser? Firefox is a vague image

of what it once was and Chrome is an unacceptable resource

hog.

iMac (27-inch, Late 2013), macOS High Sierra (10.13), Thunderbolt display

Posted on Oct 9, 2017 3:24 AM

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Eric Root

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Oct 9, 2017 8:16 AM in response to woodmeister50

The only way I've been able to selectively delete cookies is to go to Safari/Preferences/Manage Website Data and manually delete the desired cookies. You can use the shift and command keys to select multiple cookies at once and then click Remove.

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woodmeister50 Author

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Oct 13, 2017 4:49 AM in response to woodmeister50

An "Apple Recommended" approach that is not possible with

Safari 11 in High Sierra! The option simply does not exists.

It is either "Disable and delete all" or "accept everything from

every where".

What you are initially presented with:

And if you click block all:

So, as I said, block and remove everything, or accept everything!

"Blocking" should NOT mean delete everything, DOH!

The manage website data is totally useless as deleting a cookie

will only have it reappear when entering a website that sets that

cookie, which could be from anywhere!

NOTE: Safari 11 is not like this at all in Sierra!!!

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woodmeister50 Author

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Oct 12, 2017 3:54 AM in response to Eric Root

Eric Root wrote:

The only way I've been able to selectively delete cookies is to go to Safari/Preferences/Manage Website Data and manually delete the desired cookies. You can use the shift and command keys to select multiple cookies at once and then click Remove.

There is a catch-22 scenario. Disable cookies when visiting a single site

wipes out ALL cookies, even from benevolent sites. But enabling cookies

and manually deleting a cookie (cookies) still ends up reloading them when entering

a site or doing anything additional on that site.

So, either you accept all the cookies from the stores cookie section or have

the chocolate chip, oatmeal ones that you want thrown away! With latest

Safari, those are your only choices.

All I am saying (which I sent via Feedback) is disabling cookies should not wipe out

your entire cache of them. Yet another silly move by the obviously junior high

software designers that Apple is hiring these days that have no understanding on

how things do or should work!

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