charlesatlas

FUD? Hardly. You're the one who's ignorant. Nobody said Safari isn't "smooth." It just doesn't give anywhere near the amount of control I want. Ad blockers don't give granular control. I used Adblock Plus, Ublock Origin and Ghostery for years. I know of which I speak. If you think they provide a lot of control, you're sadly deluded. With Privacy Badger, I can block cookies and content on my terms. I don't have to trust filter lists compiled by somebody else. The sites that block you are no problem for me as I can enable or disable blocking server by server. For instance, if a site uses Facebook comments, Cookie Autodelete will clear all cookies including Facebook's as soon as I leave that site (and Facebook.com), so Facebook can't track me elsewhere. Certain sites demand Google or Doubleclick cookies, but I can accept those cookies while still blocking Google or Doubleclick content, so I still don't see any ads. Try that with an ad blocker. And again, as soon as I leave those sites, my browser is cleaned.

As for your fear of cross-browser tracking, that's why I have anti-fingerprinting extensions installed. Sure, you can manually clear cache and cookies, but Cookie Autodelete takes care of that automatically immediately, and only on sites where I want it to. And what about localstorage, indexedDB, plugin data or service workers? Do you clear those, too? Do you even know what they are? Only somebody who thinks his time isn't important would go around manually clearing things.

williamlondon said:

I use Safari with Ad Guard and Cookie, does that qualify me as a power user/abuser, and if so, where do I apply for my membership card? ;-)

See above if you think you're so smart. You can delete or block cookies, but can you edit them for sites that insist on logging you out every couple of months, so you'll stay logged on indefinitely? Do you have any idea what Ad Guard is blocking or does "power user" in your opinion mean someone who just blindly accepts somebody else's filter list?