Cookie
6.0.1
Cookie
6.0.1Protect your online privacy.
Overview
Cookie prevents third parties from hijacking your browsing experience. The sites you visit store "cookies" in your browser without your knowledge or consent. Some are helpful, but others are frustrating and invasive. Cookie can help.
Features:
- Consolidate all your browser privacy settings
- Simplified View that takes care of all the technical details for you
- Advanced View which puts you in total control of all your privacy settings
- Combined cookie view displaying all cookie/flash/localStorage data in one easy to manage view
- Cookie's can be favorited on a per domain, or per cookie basis. You decide
- Individual Browser settings. It is possible to configure different automatic removal options for each browser. In the case of Chrome/Chromium/Canary/Brave you can even configure settings per user!
- A number of removal schedules are possible: When quitting Cookie, when a Browser is Quit, on computer login, On computer waking from sleep, on a customizable time schedule, or entirely manually
- Hotkey support, so you can remove all unwanted data quickly and easily
- Customizable tracking cookie definitions
- Whitelist individual tracking cookies
- Clean, modern and Intuitive User Interface
- Helpful setup window
- Browser extension protection
- Full Screen support
- iCloud support
- Dark/Regular theme
What's new in Cookie
Version 6.0.1:
Fixed:
- An issue with Full Disk Access and global permissions on macOS Catalina
- An issue with Firefox nightly cookie removal
- An issue with chrome database removal
- An issue with un-checking non visible favorite single cookies
- An issue with potential non display of non visible favorite single cookies
- An issue with incorrect favorites count when non visible favorite single cookies are present
- Licensed status not correctly updating via iCloud
- App Store link
- Potential chrome based browser setup issue
- Initial iCloud sync improvements
- Small localization corrections
Requirements for Cookie
- Intel 64
- macOS 10.14.0 or later
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For the past several weeks I've been using Firefox and Cookie is completely ineffective - does not function at all with FF Quantum.
FF cookies aren't ever shown in the cookies list so they can't be removed there either.
And there are two cookies shown for Chromium that are impossible to remove even though I manually deleted them in Chromium; One is a Demdex tracking cookie.
The icon in the menu bar is no longer white with black chips. For the past several version it's now dark grey with black chips and I don't like it. I'm using dark menu bar, but disabling it makes it even uglier.
Cookie routinely uses more than 120% CPU which causes my fans to race. And Cookie can almost never be quit from the menu bar - I must open Activity Monitor and quit it there.
Why is one of the choices for icon appearance a location indicator?! Cookie's not a map! That's just dumb AF.
As for Firefox Quantum, it now locks its cookie database when open, so as is recommended - you should only remove cookies when the browser is closed (quit). You can still delete cookies while Firefox is open... but it most likely will cause corruption.
Maybe the Chromium cookies are Extensions. Cookie whitelists all extensions by default so you don't mess up any settings they require. you can change this behaviour on the Advanced tab in Preferences or by clicking the STAR icon in the bottom right of the main window.
You can easily find all these answers in my support forums.
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The one exception is I do have "remove at login" enabled
(I'd prefer it happen at shutdown).
No check mark appears to let the user know that option has been changed, only the name changes so it's easy to overlook. There's no notice given that pausing removal also disables the ability to quit the app.
But if some functions are paused, why does it continually use so much freakin' RAM?! After re-enabling it RAM usage is still excessive - I've seen it as high as 115% while typing this reply.
Firefox is listed as one of the browsers in the requirements posted above, yet there's no mention that FF Quantum won't work with your app. Quantum was released in Nov. 2017, so you've known for over a year that Cookie is incompatible with it and neglected to make it known? Don't blame MU for posting inaccurate information either - you could have easily asked them to correct it.
I specifically stated that one of the persistent cookies is a Demdex tracking cookie. You should should know that tracking cookies are NOT browser extensions!
It's also SLOW AF! Even right after reboot if I click a triangle and try to remove a cookie from whitelist, I get beachballing and it takes many seconds to complete.
Simply enabling/disabling the pause feature in the menu causes beachball for a second or two.
In fact just clicking the icon to open the menu is enough to beachball briefly almost every time. And the menu is very slow to respond, taking a few seconds before items are highlighted as the cursor passes over them.
I rebooted less than an hour ago and have almost 6.5 GB of free memory.
The same happens when you press the menu icon, Cookie needs to parse all your cookies to update the menu.
So both your issues are related to having a large number of cookies. There really is no need to keep a large number of cookies, that is the whole purpose of Cookie, to only keep the minim required for optimal browsing.
And those are just the opt-out favorites, no logins or cookies for sites I use.
You’ve known for a long time that I have a lot of cookies, yet this is the first time you’ve stated that Cookie bogs down with too many (how many is too many is unknown).
Back in April 2016 I said "I know it's not typical for someone to have 100+ favorite cookies, but I spent a LOT of time downloading opt-out cookies and marking them."
And then in June 2016 I said "It took me a couple hours to setup and download and mark over 200 opt-out cookies."
So you could have told me nearly three years ago about this problem!
As I’ve explained here before, I use Cookie to save opt-out cookies which tell sites not to set cookies. By saving those cookies, it prevents those sites from adding new ones as I traverse the web. Having these cookies prevents tracking and increases privacy. So you’re wrong - there’s IS a very good reason for having so many cookies.
Opt-out cookies must be saved in each browser, and many sites set multiple opt-out cookies per browser, e.g. I have 17 for mookie (8 Safari, 4 FF, 5 Chromium) and 18 for adtechus (12 Safari, 2 FF, 3 Chromium).
If you clear your cookies from within a browser, all your opt-out cookies will be deleted as well. That’s why I bought Cookie - so I could mark which ones were favorites and they would be saved while unwanted ones are deleted.
I had no way of knowing Cookie has severe limitations which prevent it from working with the third most popular browser in the world and only allows it to perform satisfactorily with a small number of cookies.
The former may have been caused by changes to Firefox’s architecture, but once you became aware of it you had a duty to disclose it.
You’re hiding the fact that your app is not made to work with a large number of cookies, just like you’re hiding the fact that it’s incompatible with Quantum. What else are you hiding?
If a developer knows their software has limitations and/or incompatibilities, those should be clearly posted in the description so users can have that knowledge BEFORE they install it. Someone may have installed Cookie today who will soon discover that IT DOES NOT WORK WITH QUANTUM.
For anyone interested, you can simply search for "opt-out cookies."
But a few of the top sites that can download privacy cookies for many other sites are http://optout.networkadvertising.org/, http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN and (for EU cookies) http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices.
Be aware that in order for opt-out cookies to be installed, you must first allow your browser to accept all cookies and disable ad blockers. Once you have the cookies you can re-enable your ad blocker and block 3rd-party cookies again.
After that, DO NOT REMOVE THE OPT-OUT COOKIES!
If you use Cookie you’ll need to mark them all as favorites.
thanks for the informations
And there's still no keyboard shortcut to whitelist an item!?!? Does the author even use his own program?
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