Cookies / local storage: Chrome shows “1 used”

  • Resolved p10n

    (@p10n)


    3 years, 11 months ago

    To avoid a cookie banner, I do not use any cookies on my site.
    However, FooGalery seems to initalize the local storage, even though there does not seem to be much in it (at least to my anderstanding).

    FireFox does not reporat any cookies, but Chrome says “1 used” and shows the item “local storage” in the Cookies dialog. This is confusing for visitors. Is there a way to avoid this?

    I want to state in my privacy policy that I do not use any cookies, and I do not want visitors to think I am lying to them.

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  • Plugin Author bradvin

    (@bradvin)

    We can look at turning off using the local storage by a setting. @steveush what do we use it for? Pagination and filter state?

    Plugin Author steveush

    (@steveush)

    Hi,

    I had to do some testing with this to see why there was a cookie being reported.

    We don’t actually make use of any localStorage or cookies in the standard workings of FooGallery. I have double checked and the only place in our code that relates to either is part of a debug utility which makes use of localStorage but it has to be manually run from the console.

    Part of this utility checks as the script is parsed if the window.localStorage object exists. It does not read from or to the localStorage, simply checks if it exists. This is what Chrome is reporting as a cookie even though there is none. Essentially I think Chrome is reporting a false positive here.

    That said I’ll be making some code changes to make sure the debug utility never touches the window.localStorage object until its needed.

    Thanks

    Thread Starter p10n

    (@p10n)

    Thank you very much!
    Looking forward to the update.

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