Separate accounts, separate cookies
Each regular profile uses its own persistent website data store. Signing into a site in your work profile does not sign you into it in your personal profile.
Privacy, in plain language
your data. a clear account.
Know what is kept, what is separated and what a private session actually means. Privacy should come with specifics.
your browser setup lives on your Mac.
Terrava stores your spaces, tabs and saved pages locally. There is no Terrava account or cloud sync to set up. Websites you visit still receive the requests needed to load their pages.
a place for each kind of data.
| Data | How Terrava handles it |
|---|---|
| Spaces and tabs | Saved on your Mac so your browsing setup can be restored. |
| Cookies and website data | Managed by WebKit in a separate data store for each profile. |
| Browsing history | Visited page addresses and titles are stored locally when history recording is enabled. Turning recording off clears that history. |
| Saved pages | Bookmarks and reading-list entries are stored locally, organised by profile. Saved is unavailable in private profiles. |
| Downloads | Files you deliberately download remain on your Mac, including files downloaded while browsing privately. |
A session without a persistent store
Private profiles use a nonpersistent website data store. This does not make you anonymous to websites or your network, and files you download are still saved.
local rules. visible choices.
Choose Off, Standard or Strict in privacy settings. Terrava includes local rule lists that WebKit uses to block matching requests before they are sent. Add a site exception in the profile where you need it.
A rule list only blocks what it matches. It does not stop every tracker or prevent every form of fingerprinting.
Changing a blocking setting applies to the next page load. Open pages keep their existing rules until you reload them.
A new home for your tabs
make yourself
some room.
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plans and little detours that make up your day.