<story><title>Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls</title><url>https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/chrome-cookie.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tehwebguy</author><text>&amp;gt; By the way, before anyone runs off and yells &amp;quot;Switch to Safari&amp;quot; or something like that, keep in mind that Safari is actually in a worse state and doesn&amp;#x27;t have detailed cookie and site information at all.&lt;p&gt;It does, but it&amp;#x27;s split between two places. You can see a list of all sites that have stored data in Preferences &amp;gt; Privacy &amp;gt; Manage Website Data... (no option to view here, just delete).&lt;p&gt;You can also navigate to the site in the browser and then view the detailed data:&lt;p&gt;- Check &amp;quot;Show Develop menu in menu bar&amp;quot; in Preferences &amp;gt; Advanced&lt;p&gt;- Develop &amp;gt; Show Web Inspector&lt;p&gt;- Navigate to the Storage tab&lt;p&gt;On the left you&amp;#x27;ll see options for Cookies, Local Storage &amp;amp; Session Storage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samizdis</author><text>&amp;gt; You can also navigate to the site in the browser and then view the detailed data&lt;p&gt;The author addresses this point (or has now addressed it) in the addendum to point out an &amp;quot;observer effect&amp;quot; shortcoming:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;This information can be seen with the web inspector in both Chrome and Safari.&lt;p&gt;Yes, but the crucial difference is that you have to navigate to an individual site in a browser window in order to see the site data in the web inspector. Whereas in the Preferences, you can get to the site data, for every website, without having to load the sites. And remember, the very act of loading a site can make the site data change, so there&amp;#x27;s an &amp;quot;observer effect&amp;quot; if you try to examine or delete it in the web inspector.&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls</title><url>https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/chrome-cookie.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tehwebguy</author><text>&amp;gt; By the way, before anyone runs off and yells &amp;quot;Switch to Safari&amp;quot; or something like that, keep in mind that Safari is actually in a worse state and doesn&amp;#x27;t have detailed cookie and site information at all.&lt;p&gt;It does, but it&amp;#x27;s split between two places. You can see a list of all sites that have stored data in Preferences &amp;gt; Privacy &amp;gt; Manage Website Data... (no option to view here, just delete).&lt;p&gt;You can also navigate to the site in the browser and then view the detailed data:&lt;p&gt;- Check &amp;quot;Show Develop menu in menu bar&amp;quot; in Preferences &amp;gt; Advanced&lt;p&gt;- Develop &amp;gt; Show Web Inspector&lt;p&gt;- Navigate to the Storage tab&lt;p&gt;On the left you&amp;#x27;ll see options for Cookies, Local Storage &amp;amp; Session Storage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gsich</author><text>Why Safari? The only sane choice is Firefox.</text></comment>