Cookie blocker for safari
I have been using firefox for my browsing purposes, but I recently have started experimenting with Safari. There are features of Safari that I like, but I can't seem to find a good plug-in like "cookiesafe" for Safari that allows me to block all cookies except those that I specifically allow. This is the only thing that is preventing me from going Safari full time.
Can anyone in insiderdom offer any tips on how to make Safari do what I want it to do?
Can anyone in insiderdom offer any tips on how to make Safari do what I want it to do?
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Why would someone make a plugin for something that the program already does?
Have you tried the Preferences?
Why would someone make a plugin for something that the program already does?
In the preferences I can set Safari to reject all cookies, but there is no setting that I can see to have Safari ask me which cookies to accept and which to reject. I can also set Safari to reject third-party cookies. This is important to me when I surf Digg, for example. It sends me to all sorts of weird sites. I don't need their cookies to follow me around the web.
Ah, I seem to have misunderstood what you wanted. But still, one question remains: why would you care about cookies? Is your hard drive measured in megabytes rather than gigabytes?
Call me paranoid about my privacy!
On another note. Can anyone offer comments on Saft and PithHelmet?
I use Mac, and recently reformatted using OSX, and cleaned my hard drive with a zero out all data overwrite. Then I installed Snow Leopard over that, and then used software update.
Before I updated on the MAC site with the update for 10.6 (or whatever it is now) I was able to fully control my cookies. I got ONE GOOGLE cookie, and deleted it before I began browsing. It remained deleted.
Then I installed the Mac software update (from the MAC site).
I suddenly got TWO GOOGLE COOKIES.
So i cleaned them, and poof, there they came again.
Suddenly, A spyfest of 144 cookies was unleashed on my system. It was not accidental, and I surfed for ZERO PORN after the software update.
It happened again and again after cleaning my cookies.
ANSWER:
The feds have begun installing spyware on MAC platforms INSIDE the software updates. Moreover, I also got a "Clean your Mac" pop-up, which I surmised was a bogus fed-importuning, attempting to get me to download their spyware onto my clean MAC.
There is now NO COMBINATION of cookie cleaning processes which will clean the system so as to preclude the cookiefest now dancing about gleefully inside my MAC platform, and surely on some fed hacker's parallel watcher system.
SO, YE MAC USERS, YOU ARE WARNED. MAC IS BEING LEVERAGED BY THE FEDS to put spyware on home computers. This explains why they abandoned discs: they want to make goddamned sure you have to visit their site so they can gut your privacy.
This also means Safari is NOT SAFE, and privacy on a MAC platform which has installed a software update-even one- folks, is ILLUSION.
Don't use MACS for secure work like intellectual property and such, MAC is a compromised platform... thanks, fed guys. Up your asses.
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