Facebook Log Off

Can any one advise how to stop Safari logging me into Facebook automatically when I open the webpage - it does this every time even when I have gone to my safari preferences and clicked off auto login?? HELP!! after yesterday's revelations on Capital Hill I really don't want to be logged in when I am not actively using the website!! Thanks!

Could be that you have Facebook set as your home page in Safari or you should change your Facebook settings so you have to sign in every time. Best to install Adblock, Ghostery (stops tracking) and FB Purity (all free) to minimise any cross over of data.

Adding to the good advice from Sue - Open Safari and click on the word Safari (upper left corner) on the menu bar.

Under the drop down menu click Preferences. On the General tab check and see what Homepage is listed and change that to something else if it is Facebook.

Now - still in preferences - click on the Passwords tab. You will have to input your password for your mac to access it. Delete any password (including Facebook) that you do not what Safari to "remember". That should fix the issue.

Lsia

When you don't visit the Facebook website, it doesn't matter if you are logged in or not. The way Facebook can remember your information is by storing a cookie in your browser with your credentials so that you don't have to repeatedly login.

If you don't wish to have any of this, then you should always browse in a Private window and disable storing cookies.

When you don't visit the Facebook website, it doesn't matter if you are logged in or not. The way Facebook can remember your information is by storing a cookie in your browser with your credentials so that you don't have to repeatedly login.

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Interesting isn't it Ashwin, and just about pretty well the same way that Amazon, Google, Apple and almost every website out there can and still probably does do. :Blushing:




- Patrick
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It's all in the cookies where the magic happens. If you want to totally break every site, disable cookies and javascript and your entire experience is ruined unfortunately.

You can use an app called Cookie which will delete all your cookies except the ones you want to keep when ever you quit your browser. Pain in the butt but it works.

cradom said:

You can use an app called Cookie which will delete all your cookies except the ones you want to keep when ever you quit your browser. Pain in the butt but it works.

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What would be wrong with just enabling Safari's "Private Browsing…" for those who are concerned about their "cookie trail and captured info"???

Then there shouldn't be any to even delete I suspect. But I'm just assuming that what it does — stops any tracking or harvesting???





- Patrick
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cradom said:

You can use an app called Cookie which will delete all your cookies except the ones you want to keep when ever you quit your browser. Pain in the butt but it works.

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+1 for recommendation and +1 for "Pain in the butt" - whatever that means as I'm an ignorant Brit;D

Ian

Cookie is helpful for when you WANT to keep certain cookies, like a bank or credit union...something that needs cookies to keep track of who you are.
You can set it up to keep certain ones and trash the rest when closing the browser. For example I keep cookies for the forums, my credit union and places I shop at frequently.
Everything else I don't care about and is set to be deleted. With Private Browsing you cant go from page to page on a site and have it remember a login because there's no set cookie for it.

pm-r said:

What would be wrong with just enabling Safari's "Private Browsing…" for those who are concerned about their "cookie trail and captured info"???

Then there shouldn't be any to even delete I suspect. But I'm just assuming that what it does — stops any tracking or harvesting???
- Patrick
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