Mac 911
BY GLENN FLEISHMAN
WHY DOES A SAFARI COOKIE REAPPEAR AFTER YOU DELETE IT?
Safari for macOS lets you view the kind of data cached locally by websites in your browser. Select Safari → Preferences → Privacy, and then click Manage Website Data, and you can see the kind of data stored by every site. It can include Cache, Local Storage, Databases, Cookies, and much more. You can select items to remove them, or even go nuclear and click Remove All.
Those are different categories of local storage, but they’re all managed by the Web site with the permission and mediation of the browser. Cookies is the most likely one to see, as cookies contain a login token used to keep a session going as you navigate among pages, or tracking data used by advertisers.
Macworld reader David is having a problem with this, however. When he selects an item and then clicks Remove, he sometimes sees the entry disappear and then instantly reappear. He’s checked that any Web pages associated with the site in
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