Provide Location of found cookie?

  • Resolved queso

    (@queso)


    5 years, 2 months ago

    Currently configuring the plugin and the database had about 20% of the cookies on the site (which is nice). Others I can figure out by name… but is there any way the plugin could display the relevant file path or related database rows, etc. in order to help track down where some of these are being found at?

    Some of them kind of resemble plugins that have been long removed from the site (which I’m sure left remnants in the db) but it’s very hard to track some of them down without it.

    Just a suggestion.

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  • Thread Starter queso

    (@queso)

    Actually just tracked down a few of these and they aren’t even cookies… A few of them are actually “local storage”, which I see does fall under the same rules. (May be worth mentioning somewhere in the documentation when people are trying to track down “cookies”.

    But after all this digging, it didn’t find a number of cookies and the manual add one button does nothing when I click it ??

    Plugin Contributor Leon Wimmenhoeve

    (@leonwimmenhoeve)

    Hi @queso,

    Thank you for reaching out. Let me provide some further explanation about the cookiescan and cookiedatabase and answer your questions along the way.

    The cookiescan scans a few pages of your site in your browser and then displays a list of cookies that are placed in your browser. ‘Cookies’ is used as a name for cookies and similar techniques, so local storage and session storage are also scanned.

    We recommend performing the scan without any addblockers or DNT settings enabled, as this could prevent cookies from being placed in your browser. If there are still ‘old’ cookies in your browser from plugins that you have deactivated than they could be displayed as well. Clearing cookies or using a ‘fresh’ browser can give a more accurate result. Also cookies tht are only placed with admins can get detected. Most of them we have marked as ‘admin cookies’, which will get grayed out.

    The cookie scan can not access third-party cookies, so we use several other techniques to detect those, including your answers in the wizard and scanning the site for scripts that indicate the presence of third-party scripts.

    If you have enabled the Cookiedatabase.org API, it collects information for all cookies. If cookies are not yet registered in the database, the cookiedatabase.org community gets a message that cookie information is missing. We are working with the community to expand the database every day.

    From our experience, the cookiedatabase often covers over 75-100% of a website’s cookies. I would be interested to see the 80% that Complianz detected on your site and seem to be missing in our database. If you would like to share, you could also reach us at support(at)complianz.io.

    I hope this clarifies. Please let me know if you have any further questions.

    Kind regards,
    Leon

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