General comment plus half a question
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I just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Sierra because safari was becoming unusable. I don't remember so many cookies being set in the old system as seems to be the case now.
At first I thought that Cookie was not clearing my cache as it is set to do. But after some testing it looks like visiting a site results in the appearance of 10+ cookies from third parties. For example, if I clear the cookies and then visit www.tesco.com I get cookies from all sorts of companies, some of which I recognise (e.g. Talktalk) and many others I have never heard of.
Question: I thought that Safari blocked third party cookies. So what is going on?
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Do you have Safari set to "Allow from current website only" on the "Privacy" Preferences tab?
also try installing something like the Ghostery extension to block some more tracking cookies.
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Thanks for pointing that out. Previously that setting was "third party".
At least "third party" is unambiguous and self-explanatory. "Allow from current website only" is obscure and ambiguous. If I open my preferences, I could be on any web site, so the language just does not make sense. The computer world seems to get dumber by the day since the masses got involved.
I guess the language had to change incase the masses might get confused and think that a third party is the one you attend after the second party on a Saturday night.
BTW, since upgrading form Snow Leopard to Sierra I find that the spell checker on web sites has turned into a spelling CORRECTOR which changes my typos into completely different words. I am so grateful.
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Anyway, I think I am good to go and ready to pay my 15 bucks for the license.
Thanks for your help.
