Cookie for Mac

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• Fails to recognize or delete junk in cache

  Randy_JazzOctober 16, 2015

  Pros

  Simple and effective in identifying cookies, flash cookies, Silverlight and databases. Provides a list with check boxes to select what to keep or discard. Can delete unwanted junk on command or automatically.

  Cons

  Fails to identify or remove junk loaded into cache, even with "Broswer Cache" selected in Cookie Preferences. You must still to go to Safari-->Preferences-->Privacy and go though the list one-by-one to locate and remove junk in cache. This is time consuming and inconvenient, and doing so is exactly what Cookie is supposed to avoid. I had 52 pieces of junk in cache in less than a week that Cookie compeltely missed. Only resorting to the laborious manual procedure in Safari Preferences cleaned it out. Most disappointing.,

  Summary

  Missing all the junk in cache is a major failure of Cookie. Hopefully future refinement of the software will address this serious flaw, that, for now, makes this ineffective for its indended purpose.

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• Excellent Tracking Cookie Control

  zunipusMay 16, 2013

  Pros

  This is the best, IMHO, of the current cookie control apps. You pay the shareware fee, it just works, no subscription baloney to pay for. It finds ALL tracking cookies, hopefully forever, all on its own. Nice.

  Cons

  It has a steep learning curve. You might want to try out its freeware sibling 'Safari Cookies' first. It works as a Safari extension and offers some basic but effective tracking cookie control. Then graduate up to Cookie, which provides all the pro bells and whistles you're going to need.

  Summary

  I love Cookie. Originally I had a serious hate relationship with 'Safari Cookies', the freeware starter version. It has a lot of buggy bumps in the road of its development. But I got to appreciate it, bought Cookie, and have been very pleased. Cookie also has its occasional bugs, but the developer has consistently been bashing at it and improving it. The hard part of the learning curve hits you right at the start when you have to figure out how Cookie works and then decide whose cookies you want to keep and whose you want to never see again. You compare the sites you like to visit with the cookies that have been dumped on your computer and sort it out. Eventually, you check on all your favorite cookies and leave the rest to die. Be SURE to export your favorites!!! If you have more than one computer, you're going to want to import them again into Cookie on those computers. The exports are also excellent backups of your setup. At one point I lost my Cookie faves list and it was not a happy scene. There is also a timer build into Cookies where you can have it kill the evil cookies after your chosen period of time has elapsed. I find this to be very useful. For example, Google wants us all to be their bitch while they surveil us all over the entire Internet. That's not acceptable. Also mean and cruel of Google is their REQUIREMENT that you accept their tracking cookie whenever you log into their services, all except Google search that is. Therefore, I set Cookie to kill the tracking cookie every 30 minutes. That means I occasionally have to log into a Google service all over again while I want to use it within my account. But it also means that I am NOT surveilled all over hell and back again. The tracking cookie is killed off and nothing I do is surveilled by anyone ever, thanks to Cookie. I've been using Cookie control apps since 1995, would you believe. Cookie is the best of them. There is currently an alternative cookie control app that requires you buy a yearly subscription to their tracking cookie blacklist. That's BALONEY! Cookie identifies all tracking cookies all on its own by reading through the code inside each cookie. You don't need any blacklist, ever. You buy Cookie once and it works forever, hopefully. Again: Be ready for the learning curve. But work your way through it, get Cookie set up the way you like it, have it running at login, then forget about it. It just works. I love the thing and highly recommend it to every living, breathing human on the planet who uses a Mac on the Internet. It's that good, and killing off tracking cookies is that important. No one wants to be some marketing moron's pet human.

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