I want to be asked avery time a website tries to put a cookie on my computer if I want to receive it or not. I would like to be able to say things like 'yes, always allow', 'allow this time' and 'never allow' but can't seem to be able to find anything that does this. (My dad has this sort of thing on his PC but the program is not available for a mac).
People have posted that you can get Safari to ask you every time but I can't see the options. I just have options for blocking cookies from Advertising and Third Parties, Always or Never. If I click on Always or Advertising and Third Parties it doesn't let any cookies through (without giving me an option) and nothing works (my banking etc) and if I click Never, it doesn't block anything.
I've downloaded an application called 'cookie' but this doesn't seem to block anything, it just deletes what you specify at specific points in time. I'm also trying little snitch but this seems to be focused on just network connections and doesn't really seem to be giving me any control over companies like google and Facebook (and their friends) putting what ever cookies they want on my computer. Maybe if I spend some time learning about all the different types of processes and their names I might be able to set this up to do what I want but it seems a little complicated.
I just want to be asked, while I'm working away, if I want to accept a cookie or not from whoever. I would then hope I will be able to easily relate this to what I'm doing and decide whether it's going to help me or not and if I want to allow it.
Any pointers to a nice piece of software that let's me do this?
People have posted that you can get Safari to ask you every time but I can't see the options. I just have options for blocking cookies from Advertising and Third Parties, Always or Never. If I click on Always or Advertising and Third Parties it doesn't let any cookies through (without giving me an option) and nothing works (my banking etc) and if I click Never, it doesn't block anything.
I've downloaded an application called 'cookie' but this doesn't seem to block anything, it just deletes what you specify at specific points in time. I'm also trying little snitch but this seems to be focused on just network connections and doesn't really seem to be giving me any control over companies like google and Facebook (and their friends) putting what ever cookies they want on my computer. Maybe if I spend some time learning about all the different types of processes and their names I might be able to set this up to do what I want but it seems a little complicated.
I just want to be asked, while I'm working away, if I want to accept a cookie or not from whoever. I would then hope I will be able to easily relate this to what I'm doing and decide whether it's going to help me or not and if I want to allow it.
Any pointers to a nice piece of software that let's me do this?
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