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Great time of year to talk about cookie problems. Mine show up on the bathroom scale.

Update: My disappearing cookies are for Chase Bank and FTM, but there may be others that I've never run into. The other sites with which I had a problem turned out to be victims of cache clearing.

I've now emailed Cookie's dev 3 times and not received a response - I guess it's a selfish reaction to my having called him out...story upon request.

At any rate, I've now trashed Cookie. (I guess I'll give it another try after a looong hiatus.)

As it was back in October, when your issue first surfaced, I continue not to have the problem. On my machine, all relevant pieces of software (OS Monterey, Safari, Cookie) have since been updated.... but no change.

Bizarre!

Cookies is only one of the ways Remember me can be implemented, and I know that FTM cookies have a relatively short (30 day) expiration date. Although I have no experience with Chase, I do have on-line accounts with multiple financial institutions and while all of them at one time did Remember me, I just made a quick check, and none of them, currently Remember me. While I haven't paid any particular attention to whether or not those sites remembered me, I BELIEVE that change has taken place this year and corresponds to significant site upgrades and increased site security arrangements including required two-factor authentication.

My point being, the change may be the result of financial institutions finally getting serious about site security and have nothing whatsoever to do with Safari or Cookie?

First, I'll note that the last time I looked, MacUpdate's cookies expired after only (a ridiculous) 7 days, and if I remember correctly, you posted a while back that there's been a recent push for shorter cookie lives than have historically been used.

I don't think my issue's got anything to do with strengthened security, though, because FTM has made no changes other than shortening the lives of its cookies (nor has ryck, who's still running Cookie, run into my issue).

Of the websites at which I've had problems, my FTM and PayPal problems go away when Cookie goes away, and my Chase Bank problem occurs only when I clear cache.

Here's a four month history of my FTM cookies, and as you can see there's absolutely no rhyme or reason to their disappearance.

I wonder if many of the sites that don't remember you are simply the result of your not having visited them for so long that their cookies expired?