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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How do I find out what is arbitrarily removing cookies on my website?
Having an issue where some of our cookies are being arbitrarily deleted in Facebooks In-App browser, and I cannot figure out what is removing them. One of the cookies is our session cookie, so not ...
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How can I find what cookies my site uses?
I have a basic wWordpress site which doesn't even have any commenting, registration or contact forms. I collect nothing from anyone except whatever my host automatically gathers by default, like ip ...
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If place a unique id upon a visitor then I store it into DB am I compliant with eu Requlation?
Into my php application I want to store this info:
slug
OS
Browser
Visitor Id
These will be a single table in my db counting hits for each vising of a given slug.
In my application I will NOT ...
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Why does user's cookie consent decision affect GA page view counts?
After a modification in our site's cookie consent, percentage of users accepting the GA cookies increased about 40% (before the change: 50% opt-in, after the change: 90% opt-in).
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What requirements exist for a consent-free site?
What are requirements for a consent-free website? One said to me, just cookie-free isn't enough...
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The info logged in my host servers
My website host logs information about users visiting my website such as number of visitors, ip addresses, their browser info, geographical info and all that standard stuff. How is this info collected?...
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Is it normal for revenue to drop heavily when using AdSense default GDPR message?
I turned on Google's AdSense GDPR Consent Message two days ago, and the results have been horrendous. I went with the default, two button message popup as it's straightforward enough. One options ...
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Reasons cookie with samesite=none is not sent?
I have a fairly high traffic service that relies on a samesite=none cookie. I have seen that this cookie is not sent for about 1% of users in a cross domain context. This is the exact case my site ...
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Why is there another _ga_ cookie in my site with unknown ID?
I open my site, open devtool and navigate to the Cookies section in Storage tab. I see that there are three _ga_ cookies: _ga, _ga_XXXXXX1 and _ga_XXXXXX2. XXXXXX1 is indeed my measurement ID, but I ...
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How to disable cookies on my weebly website?
I have a website built with Weebly. It is just a simple static webpage. It seems to me that this kind of site doesn't require any kind of cookie, since there is no user log-in, no preference to be set,...
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Custom "cookie solution" [closed]
I'm working on a website for a client who owns a restaurant.
I've just finished developing it and I'm working on the part relating to the privacy policy and related cookies.
The cookies used by the ...
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GA4 massive spam spikes from cities in different country
More than a Month now our website has massive spikes in direct traffic. So my thoughts are spam. I discovered a lot of traffic from certain cities, especially Boardman, Montreal, Columbus. What is the ...
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Where to find ga= in Google Analytics 4
Where in GA4 reports do you find the ga=? This is popping up on the end of a lot of my URLs.
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Is it a bad idea to build a webapp that has no user registration? [closed]
I always wondered that why all the websites, web applications out there have a whatever kind of user registration, e.g. email, phone, oauth, etc;
I believe that many users don't like email ...
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When cookie consent for Google Analytics 4 in Google Sites will be enhanced to comply with European Union legislation? [duplicate]
In the Settings of a Google Site, it's possible to enable analytics and add Google Analytics 4 using a measurement ID. My concern is about the cookie consent dialog. For people accessing from the ...
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