Help, impossible to delete website data, keeps coming back

[Lobitdepth]

I tried to delete all my website data today and noticed something really strange.
I delete all website data and 99% are deleted fine as expected but some data keeps coming back right after the delete procedure.
I tried multiple times but this data keeps coming back every time.
It also comes back when I select "block all cookies"

What is going on there ? I don't even visit those websites !!!

virus ? Avira is not finding anything

please see screenshot attached

 

[Marcopolo53]

Evercookie Removal



Close Safari first



On desktop go to GO and then GO TO FOLDER



Copy and paste this ~/Library/Safari/Databases



Delete ONLY THE CONTENTS of the folder



Launch Safari again and check if all is ok

 

[Lobitdepth]

Evercookie Removal
Close Safari first
On desktop go to GO and then GO TO FOLDER
Copy and paste this ~/Library/Safari/Databases
Delete ONLY THE CONTENTS of the folder
Launch Safari again and check if all is ok

Thanks that seem to fix the issue Do you know why this happened by any chance ? simple bug ? really weird

 

[Marcopolo53]

Actually, it is by design by the website owner. It is not a "Bug" but a Javascript designed to track your usage of the website. For more details on Evercookies, search Wikipedia for that title. The Evercookies can be used as a harmless tool for a website or for other not so harmless purposes.

 

[Lobitdepth]

Actually, it is by design by the website owner. It is not a "Bug" but a Javascript designed to track your usage of the website. For more details on Evercookies, search Wikipedia for that title. The Evercookies can be used as a harmless tool for a website or for other not so harmless purposes.

wow thats huge ! thanks for the info. Really pissed at Apple for not taking care of that... Especially that they promote their new anti tracking tech..

 

[Marcopolo53]

Kind of hard to block everything even for Apple. Now that we know how to rid of these Evercookies all is good in Appleland.
Happy Surfing

 

[green86]

Actually, it is by design by the website owner. It is not a "Bug" but a Javascript designed to track your usage of the website. For more details on Evercookies, search Wikipedia for that title. The Evercookies can be used as a harmless tool for a website or for other not so harmless purposes.

This is NOT what is going on. These are databases, not cookies. It is a bug in Safari.

 

[Marcopolo53]

Yes, correct. Databases that recreate the Cookie of that website when you try to delete the said cookie from history. THE ONLY to STOP the recreation of the said cookie is to delete the database.
So, IMO we are both correct. Glass half full or half empty. Depends on view point.