Comments on: Block Third Party & Advertiser Cookies Easily in Safari

By: greg

greg — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:17:17 +0000

exactly

By: Nolan

Nolan — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:58:05 +0000

If it blocks such cookies, why does cookies from double-click.net, etc. keep showing up? It’s pretty useless/nonfunctional.

By: JollyD

JollyD — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:24:37 +0000

Really, you can trust us. We’re Apple, you know, the computer for the rest of us. We wouldn’t do anything unethical. At least not without plausible deniablity.
I smell chinese (food?)

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:50:17 +0000

Finally got a response from Apple on this – they say the cookies ARE blocked – because they are not being sent back to the sites that put them on your system. Sounds odd to me but that’s what Apple told me.

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:23:36 +0000

alert(1)
couldn’t resist a try

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:22:59 +0000

I noticed this too. Safari does not block third party cookies despite what the UI is saying for this option. To test, simply clear all cookies and visit a few sites. Take a look and you will notice MANY sites have set cookies that you have not explicitly navigated to. This needs to be fixed asap.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:10:38 +0000

What is your point?

By: Phat Emu

Phat Emu — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:43:27 +0000

Whoever wrote this pile of rubbish is a raving idiot. The screenshot says it all: “503 websites stored cookies or other data” on your HDD.

Duh.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:06:00 +0000

Safari does not respect user settings for cookie blocking in Lion either.

The worst part is that a naive user is misled by Safari to believe that the settings are active and working. Apple has had ample opportunity to fix the bug or remove the user option until a fix has been made; they were notified months ago about this bug. Safari itself has been updated since the bug was reported but the bug remains.

So, since Apple are willingly causing data to be placed onto users’ machines without their permission…

…it might be time to start checking the data protection laws in your local jurisdiction and making a formal complaint about Apple to the data commissioner (or equivalent).

Not to lead to prosecution (as if!) but at least to generate some unwanted media attention about a lack of security in an OS X application – which might prompt a quicker fix.

By: LDJ

LDJ — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:07:34 +0000

It should be noted that Safari does NOT block cookies in Snow Leopard. Appearently is a bug in Snow Leopard, as the cookie blocking seems to work in Lion.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:04:26 +0000

It doesn’t really work.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:20:49 +0000

This was set as default for me, can’t say I mind either. I get the feeling this is a move Apple can point to as evidence of minding their customers security and privacy.

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