Cookie

You can download it by following this link https://sweetpproductions.com/products/cookie5/Cookie5.dmg

TY Vitalii but the App Store version does not require a serial number :/

As long as you bought Cookie 5 from the App Store, you can still download it from there. Try this: (1) Open up the App Store app and log in. You can log in either under the Store menu item or by clicking on ‘Sign in’ at the bottom left of the window. (2) You can now see your account at the bottom left. Click on it. (3) You now see the ‘Account’ window with a reverse chronological list of what you ‘Purchased‘. Scroll down to see if you can find ‘Cookie’. If you can, you’ll see an icon under it that is a little Cloud with an arrow pointing down. Click the cloud to download.... BUT->. (4) If you don’t see ‘Cookie’ in your ‘Purchased‘ list, then you probably HID it at some point. Press on and click ‘View Information’ at the top of your Account window. This provides a sub-window allowing access to your account information. (5) Locate the section labeled “Hidden Items”. To its right, click on ‘Manage’. The sub-window will change to your ‘Hidden Purchases’ list. Again, it’s in reverse chronological order. (6) Scroll down your list to locate ‘Cookie’. If you find it, click to its right on ‘UNHIDE’. This will move Cookie to your ‘Purchased’ list again. [Note: If you do NOT see Cookie in your Hidden list at this point, you’re SOL. Either you didn’t buy Cookie via the App Store, or it’s time to call Apple.] (7) Click on the background, behind the ‘Hidden Purchases’ sub-window to get back to your ‘Purchased’ list. You will now see Cookie listed. Click on its Cloud and arrow icon to download and install. Done.

A great menu icon means Cookie is disabled - click the Enable Automatic Removals button, in the menus, or in the main window.

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.
:)

Since I don't use auto-removal, I guess I saw that menu entry and paused it. I've been logged out of too many sites I was actively using so I now remove cookies manually.

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.

you must have a lot of cookies for it to be beach balling. If you leave the Cookie window open, the cookie list reloads every time a new cookie is created. And if you have a lot of cookies, that takes processor cycles to parse every single one. While you browse, Cookie is constantly trying to parse and display all the changes (while the window is open).

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.

I only have a lot of cookies if you consider 305 a lot. And that’s for three browsers - people who never clean their cookies may have hundreds of tracking cookies in just one browser.
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.