Questions tagged [cookie]
An HTTP cookie is a piece of data stored by the user's web browser. Unless otherwise specified, cookies can be created, read, modified and deleted and modified both by JavaScript and from server-side scripts by reading the headers.
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Age verification in website
I am working on a website for a client that is requesting a way to verify your age. I have debated on creating a cookie that stores your age but I am unsure on a few things.
How does SEO play into ...
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Setting cookies only on the naked domain
As far as I know, one can set a cookie for example.com and not .example.com and then the cookie will only be visible on example.com and not sub.example.com. Is this true? I have set a cookie on a test ...
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Redirecting to a default (or last visited) subdirectory. Does Google like this?
i have a site that has 3 web applications, lets use this example:
example.com/nicy
example.com/mash
example.com/zoken
The main application is nicy, so if the user comes for the first time (or if ...
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Do service workers require consent under GDPR?
I notice that Chrome puts service workers, indexed databases and local/session storage under "cookies" in the site info dropdown. Are these things in any way considered ways to access personal ...
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How does a metered paywall track its users?
A metered paywall is most seen on online newspapers. It allows users to view a specific number of articles before requiring paid subscription. In contrast to sites allowing access to select content ...
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SEO - Does Google properly handle hreflang tags with links that just change the language settings in a session cookie?
I am currently working on a website that is available in multiple languages. I put some effort in atomatically detecting the users preferred language. This itself is working great. I also offer ...
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Remember me or not?
I was told to post this on webmasters instead of stackoverflow.
Is it safe to have the remember me feature? Would it be somewhat safe (knowing it won't be 100% safe) to allow users to close their ...
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How can I use cookie-free domains with Microsoft Azure portal?
My website installed in the Microsoft's Azure portal. My website using asp.net and framework(sitecore cms). It's C#.
I checked my website using gtmetrix. It recommends using cookie-free domains.
I ...
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Logged Out Too Soon; PHP Sessions Expire Too Quickly. Is this a Linux, CentOS, Cookies, CPanel problem?
Recently, I've been getting logged out sooner than expected on several websites that I manage on Linux servers. The problem started spontaneously a few months ago. At the time, I had not made any ...
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Google Tag Manager Uses iframe, is this problematic for IE?
Internet Explorer has a non-standard P3P privacy policy implementation (what a surprise). This prevents cookies from being loaded in iframes.
Google Tag Manager uses an iframe.
Does this cause ...
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GTM + GA4 init after consent - Data loss?
Question about something I am not sure about. But the way I set everything up for my ecommerce site is:
When people will visit the page they will get a Cookie Consent Bar which you can accept or will ...
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Does Google analytics count as new users if users not revisit within 24hours on IOS14?
With regards to first party cookies, does Google analytics count as new users if the users not revisit on the website within 24 hours as a first party cookie is deleted within 24 hours?
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Should I copy Google Analytics cookies between domains, or use Google's prefered method?
I am in the process of investigating the way of moving from a current website to a new beta version, which lives on a different TLD. I am thinking about building a service that transfers a collection ...
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Fixed position age verify using cookies without user agent sniffing
I have built a simple age verification jQuery script for a particular brand of alcohol. It asks the user if they are of legal drinking age with a yes or no button. On yes the website stores a cookie ...
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Using mod_rewrite to access httpOnly cookie?
I have Apache running as a secure proxy (Port 443) between an HTTPS site and the rest of the world. This site is setting a secure, httpOnly cookie. The cookie when seen in a trace shows up in a ...
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What does "Slightly longer" mean in EU cookie law?
Since my site serves worldwide users, I feel it must comply with EU laws, especially the cookie law. I have some things on my site that uses cookies to save user settings, but on the EU laws page at ...
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Cookie consent messages required on websites - how will adsense work?
I ended up watching this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5xVSXTn41Y
It states that publishers have until September 30th, 2015 to add a visible message indicating about the use of cookies on ...
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How to handle pages that requires the use of session cookie?
I have a search page that uses session to track search criteria made by the user. A session cookie is created automatically when the page is launched. As bots do not use cookie, 1000s of sessions ...
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Apache server not able to read cookies from Browser
I have developed a login authentication page using cookies (with spring security) where for the first time, the user will need to get itself authenticated. Once the user gets successfully ...
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Variable IPs: How variable are they? Best practices for tracking
There are a lot of questions on StackOverflow relating to session security / session hijacking, but there doesn't seem to be a really good solution to the problem. The three most common suggestions ...
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Tracking users between sites using contact forms
I have two websites; A and B. I have hyperlinked linked these sites via advertisement banners and have contact forms on both. When people contact me through Website B's Contact Form I believe they are ...
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google displays wrong language on multi language website because it takes cookies into consideration
I have a multiple language website that uses both subdomains and cookies to display the right language. Here is the logic on the website:
de subdomain will display the German version
fr subdomain ...
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Cookie Audit help needed [closed]
Can anyone recommend any decent cookie audit plugins for firefox or chrome
I can see the typical google cookies on the site but I am struggling to find out what a couple of the other cookies actually ...
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How do I disable socket.io cookie named io server-side?
I needed to disable the socket.io cookie named io server-side.
I follow the path to file creating the cookie to a file located at
C:\socket.io\examples\chat\node_modules\socket.io\node_modules\engine....
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Can someone explain how FaceBook's cookie tracks you while logged out?
This article claims that Facebook tracks what you do, even when you're logged off of Facebook, via cookies.
Now, a cookie is just a text file... that is read/written to while you're actually on that ...
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Does adding LinkedIn button to a website result in cookies that track users?
We are planning to add the LinkedIn button in our website. But the restriction we are having is, the website should not use the cookies which collect the personal information.
No impersonation.
But I ...
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How does this stackexchange form saved the work, I mean keep an auto save function, to retrieve loss of work
How does this stackexchange form saved the work, I mean keep an auto save function, to retrieve loss of work, in case the user's browser crashes.
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Domain cookie (_ga) from upper-level domain
I have deleted Google analytics account, Google site Kit plugin and Google .html verification file from the server about 30 min ago. Yet, I see a _ga cookie still being set. For example, we can take ...
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Cookie consent for promocode
We have an ecommerce site, and the promocode the user provides on the shopping bag is stored as a session cookie. Is this considered a strictly necessary cookie?
If the user rejects non-essential ...
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What is "fourth-party" in advertisement?
While I understand third-party cookies, I am not sure to understand what exactly "fourth-party" means in sentences such as:
Third and fourth party ad tracking is allowed on [website] ...
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What is the Google Analytics cookie expiration?
Do you know how long it takes for the Google Analytics cookie to time out before a user is recognized as new again? I believe it is 2 years. Is that right?
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How do I keep track of UTM referrer during an account activation process?
I have an email campaign which has a tagged link to my website. It looks like this:
http://example.com/join/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=search&utm_campaign=Outreach
I want to know how many ...
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Can I show a user an ad based on third-party cookies on their web browser?
Let's say I have a site that sells something. A user has no idea that my site exists, but they visit a competitor website which adds a cookie to their browser. Can I display advertising for my site ...
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Cookie manager PHP
I own a Joomla commerce store and although I use Google Analytics in order to track visitors, I need to install a cookie manager in order to be able to track cookies that were installed on customer ...
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Why does CNAME Cloaking enable cross domain tracking?
Recently, as browsers start blocking 3rd party cookies, a risky technique known as CNAME Cloaking emerged. It is said that this technique enables trackers, especially those in the online advertising ...
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Can I export my users' third party cookies such as those from Yandex to Google Ads?
I have been collecting cookies by different services like Yandex, Mautic, Facebook pixel etc. Now I need to share/import these Cookies to Google for make remarketing from my WEB by Google Ads.
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Is this document write of content fetched from another site cross site scripting or something different?
This was on a website I had to work on.
It seems to me its a horrible idea, but I was hoping to get other input before I told them it was.
var url = 'https://www.otherdomain.com/magic_php_file.php'; ...
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Is it possible to setup a cookie-less directory instead of a domain?
I'm familiar with how to setup a cookie-less domain, however, I have an situation where I can't setup a subdomain to store static elements.
Can I set only my directories where assets are being stored ...
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How not to use Google Analytics cookies on Blogger?
I just noticed of a blog powered by Blogger which doesn't store any cookie, and therefore, doesn't need to show the annoying cookie popup.
Checking Blogger options, I don't see anywhere where to get ...
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How do you match a specific cookie value with Apache 2.4 <If> statement?
I am not able to figure out why the following doesn't match:
<If %{HTTP_COOKIE} == 'XDEBUG_SESSION=leho'">
I'm setting a php_value inside the matching If. I know that part works because this ...
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Transferring cookies between two sites (one is HTTPS)
A user comes (through a link) from a http:// site to another (having different domain) https:// site. We need to track that these two requests are done by the same user. But cookies do not pass over ...
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Can a website require search engine robots to support cookies?
Sometimes I pretend to be a search engine robot to get access to "subscriber only" web pages, or just to get a plain and simple view of a page that isn't cluttered with moving animations and other ...
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What does the Quantcast __qca cookie do?
I'm reviewing the cookies served up from my website and one of them is a first-party cookie __qca which seems to be set by Quantcast.
I'm sure this is just used for tracking, but I can't find this ...
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Google AdSense reloading?
Please tell me something about Google AdSense:
1) Can i reload ads by myself without full-page-reloading? For example refresh AdSense frame or call some script?
2) About "interest-based advertising" ...
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Does Google AdSense require a privacy politcy and cookie notification popup?
I use to run ads from AdSense a few years ago on a website but because the website was not generating profit so much I stop running the ads. Now my AdSense account has to be activated again because it ...
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Prevent account sharing for paid membership online content
What's the best way to catch account sharers?
I thought about:
See how many people are currently logged in with it (cookies)
See how many logins there were in the past 24 hours
See how many ...
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Is it OK to have two "_ga" cookies in universal analytics, one for domain and one for subdomain
Our website has a number of sub-domains and we are in the process of migrating from classical analytics to universal analytics. When we migrated one of our domain from classical to universal analytics,...
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cookies and useragent is not enough ? to emulate browser?
I am building kinda a search engine for online shops, and several website are blocking me although I check the robots.txt
Let's take an example, I need to get this page:
http://www.aliexpress.com/...
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A better method to save state between desktop and mobile site
This is something I want to fix for a long time.
To begin, on my website I have a cookie named MDD and its set to 1 if the mobile detection has already happened. This is my code:
RewriteCond %{...
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cookie not being sent when requesting JS
I host a webservice, and provide my members with a Javascript bookmarklet, which loads a JS sript from my server. However, clients must be logged in, in order to receive the JS script. This works for ...
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