Oh, I assumed they were all cookies! Now that I look, there are a few cookies.
Some say cookies, some day cache, some say cache.cookies, some say cache.cookies.local storage, some just say local storage and one says cache.plug-in.
Most of them were not websites I surfed. Never heard of them.
What is the cache since I never surfed there? I know cookies track me. I'm not sure about the others.
I'll answer as best I can, and somebody else will probably drop by later with a link or two (probably to threads in which I've participated and should have bookmarked or just plain remembered).
1. I don't know why you get any cookies if you've got
Safari > Prefs > Privacy > Block cookies > Always checked.
2. "
Cookies track me" is not quite on the mark... Some cookies store info about your browsing habits at particular Websites, your login ID, what you've got in your shopping cart, and various and sundry other stuff you (I, anyhow) don't mind them storing, i.e. they're not really tracking cookies, while others really do track you. (Note that if you block the former you'll get pop-ups from some Websites telling you that they won't function while you've got cookies "
disabled.")
I use
Cookie to differentiate between the two types of cookies and deal with them. (
Edit: Safari Cookies, from the same developer, provides less functionality than Cookie, but it's donationware, rather than shareware.)
3. I've posted here asking about local storage, and I still don't know precisely what it's all about even after reading the responses, but I'll tell you that I've (theoretically) got it blocked at
Safari > Prefs > Advanced > Database storage > None allowed before asking, and at
Apps/SysPrefs > Other > Flash Player > Storage > Block all sites from storing information on this computer, and if blocking it has ever gotten in the way of anything, I'm totally unaware of it. (The latter is only pertinent if you're running Flash Player.)
4. > "
Some say cookies, some day cache, some say cache.cookies, some say cache.cookies.local storage, some just say local storage and one says cache.plug-in."
Each is telling you what the Website in question has dumped on you, either one or more of the various categories of stuff.
5. I believe the caches are all tracking you in one way or another, but I'm not aware of any way to tell which particular Website placed which particular cache. Many of them can be blocked with
Ghostery and others of its ilk, and if you'd like to walk around with crossed eyes for the rest of the day you can read through
Internet privacy bonanza?.
Hope this helped.