Duration is inconsistent between browsers

  • Resolved raffjones

    (@raffjones)


    2 years, 8 months ago

    When I accept cookies using this plugin, Chrome and Firefox set the duration to 365 days as expected, but Brave and Safari expire after one week.

    It’s 5th July 2022 as I write this.

    From a clean start with cookies cleared, I visit the same site and accept the cookies. Checking the storage, I see this for expiry of the “cookielaw-checkbox-necessary” cookie:

    Brave: Tuesday, 12 July 2022 at 14:34:30 (1 week)
    Safari: 11/07/2022, 15:46:47 (1 week)
    Chrome: Wednesday, 5 July 2023 at 14:21:11 (365 days)
    Firefox: Wed, 05 Jul 2023 13:17:16 GMT (365 days)

    To get our Cookie policy correct, I need to specify the duration we store them for, but that seems to be impossible since the browsers aren’t consistent.

    Has anyone any idea is going on with that?

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by raffjones.
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  • Plugin Author WebToffee

    (@webtoffee)

    Hi @raffjones,

    Greetings from Webtoffee!

    The cookies are stored for 365 days by the plugin irrespective of the browser. To debug the issue you mentioned we require your site URL. Could you please share the same?

    Thread Starter raffjones

    (@raffjones)

    Hi – its https://www.beda.org

    I did not create this site but am just taking care of some maintenance issues for the client, so installed your GDPR plugin.

    If you can test on the browsers I have tried that would be amazing. Thanks.

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by raffjones.
    Plugin Author WebToffee

    (@webtoffee)

    Hi @raffjones,

    We have checked the consent status of your site in the browser as mentioned by you. We waited for actually one week to complete testing in Safari. So we can explain what is really happening. First this is not a mistake of our plugin nor a mistake of the browser either.Unlike from other browsers like Chrome and Mozila Firefox, Safari and Brave putting some restriction on the cookies.

    The Safari is built on a WebKit browser engine. For visitors using Safari 12.1 and newer versions, consent information is only retained in the browser for 7 days. Thereafter, upon the user’s following visit to the website, the banner will appear again, requesting new consent be submitted. This is one of several initiatives in Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) version 2.1 in the WebKit browser engine.

    The Brave browser has restrictions for cookies set with document.cookie. The expiration is set to 7 days. For other cookies, the maximum expiry is set to 6 months. This is what exactly happened as you checked the duration of cookies on browsers.

    Thread Starter raffjones

    (@raffjones)

    Thanks for taking the time to check this out and explain what is happening. Just makes things more complicated than ever if the browsers themselves override any settings you might put in.

    GDPR continues to be nothing but one big headache ??

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