How do i stop google from tracking me and storing their cookies? Running OSX 10.7.5 & Safari v6.02 on Macbook Air.?

how do i stop google from tracking me and storing their cookies?
Running OSX 10.7.5 & Safari v6.02 on Macbook Air.?

In practicality you can't. You can set the preference in the Privacy pane of the Safari preferences to ask websites not to track you, but I don't believe Google honors that setting, and they most certainly store all sorts of cookies which you probably will get even if you set Safari to block all cookies since web programmers have ways around those blocks. All you can do is delete the cookies and other junk on a regular basis. Many cookies hide, so I use Cookie from SweetP productions which does a good job of deleting most if not all of the cruft web sites leave.
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