Deactivate Twitter Badge Cookie in latest Jetpack Sharing Plugin

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  • Plugin Contributor csonnek

    (@csonnek)

    Happiness Rocketeer ??

    Hi there! Can you be more specific as to what you mean by “Twitter badge” or specifically where you see a cookie being set? Once I have that information, I’ll be happy to take a closer look.

    Let me know if you have any questions.

    Thread Starter SpareBot

    (@sparebot)

    Hey Carolyn,

    thanks for looking into it.

    The cookie is set by the twitter share button from the jetpack sharing plugin. You can examine it by clearing your browser cookie drive space or via tools like ghostery.

    The problem is, that Twitter sets a cookie in the PC of every user that visites my site. This cookie sends a lot of personal information to twitter regardless of weather a visitor to my site is a member of twitter or not.

    I as a webmaster would have to get consent of my visitor about this cookie and I would very much like to not have to do that.

    Thread Starter SpareBot

    (@sparebot)

    Added: I activated the twitter share button for a short time for you to check what I am talking about but I had to deactivate it agaign. As I said: german privacy law prohibites the use of unconsented cookies.

    Also: The google+ sharing button does not install a cookie, so why does the twitter share buttos?

    Thread Starter SpareBot

    (@sparebot)

    Any chance this will be dealt with?

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