Well, I tried that, I disabled handoff during 5 days, and used Safari normally on both Mac, iPhone & iPad... However the history still kept coming back...
What is more, handoff can be handy from time to time, and I like to use it.
A real fix is needed.
Any news about this problem? I only use Safari, so I kinda have the feeling that I've been paying a license for a tool that does not really purge what it said it would...
Of course, I could disable Safari iCloud syncing, however I've also got an iPad & an iPhone, and I find it quite handy to synchronise bookmarks & so on...
Well, for me the problem is not happening "intermittently" but always.
The only solution I have to really purge history is to purge it via Safari on the Mac, Cookie only purges it until it comes back from iCloud I guess... I suppose when apple purges safari history, they issue some kind of command to iCloud as well in order to purge it there too, and I guess your software does not do the same for the moment... Maybe you could use wireshark/tcpdump or something like that to investigate what Safari does with iCloud when the history is purged?
Same problem for me here. And on both my iPad and iPhone, I only use Safari with Private Browsing Mode.
I think the issue is related to Safari iCloud syncing. However, if I completely disable Safari iCloud Syncing, my bookmarks are no longer synced between my Mac and my iDevices. There is not an option in iCloud settings that allows us only to sync bookmarks. So the only solution would be for Cookie to make sure the History gets removed from iCloud History as well.
I hope this will be possible soon.