Exactly how many cookies do you have? Admittedly I only have around 1500, but I haven't notice any slow downs.... I actually find it difficult accumulating more than that.

I have a regular set of about 550 cookies I keep, and I have zero problems. Add to that about 100 databases I allow. Certainly at that level, using Cookie is entirely transparent.

I normally have Cookie set to delete tracking cookies about every 15 minutes. I set it to delete them manually when I have to deal with evil Google, which forces tracking cookies if you want to stay logged in to any of their services.

Considering the fact that this software is one fee only, no recurring fees (unlike, inexplicably, Cookie Stumbler) I don't know of any software superior to Cookie. The results speak for themselves as I've managed to keep the trackers flummoxed regarding my net surfing behavior, which is the idea.

Cookie Stumbler charges a subscription fee in order to consistently increase it's tracking cookie database of 40k+ definitions. There's a team working on them.

Compared to Cookie's tracking cookie database of 122 (3.0.27), here's the very explicable reason as to why it costs more.

Thanks,

3.0.25 was a big update, a total rewrite of the Flash handling, which is why 3.0.24 went a bit haywire.....

Cookie now sees all the user Flash cookies in Chrome/Chromium
It took me a while to implement, because of the amount of work needed, and time-restraints.
:)

3.0.23a, was a trial only update to fix a licensing issue to v3.0.23.
3.0.24 was relaesed prematurely on the Mac App Store.

v3.0.25 will be available as soon as Apple reviews and approves it.

:(

sorry for all the confusion.

I'll see what I can do about that error for 3.0.22. 3.0.21 is ready to go.

this should be now fixed in v3.0.23, which has just been submitted to Apple for review. so should be available next week sometime.

Hi Emile,

you need to cull some of this cookies, you could either wait for Cookie to load (not really recommended, as it will take forever to parse that many cookies....) or you could manually remove some from within your browser. Not ideal, but you'll only need to do this once.

In other word, you say that Cookie can not manage a lot of cookies. If i could manage manually web cookies i don't need any application.

thats right, Cookie can't handle such a huge database, I don't know of any that can. This is probably why browsers have such rudimentary management systems built in.

cookie needs to parse every single cookie, 10,000 is a lot of anything. thats a lot of CPU cycles. You don't need that many cookies on your computer. The average user will have 40-50 or less sites that they visit regularly. Cookies related to these sites are the only ones which need to be on your computer. everything else is just taking up space.... or worse.... tracking you.

Once you have your Cookies down to a more manageable number, Cookie will automatically take care of all the undesirables for you - in the background - without any more intervention.

V3.0.1, has had some optimisations, especially on first start. Give it another try, and see if it works any better for you.

Russell