Strange urls when not accepting cookies

  • Resolved y0gz

    (@y0gz)


    1 year, 9 months ago

    Hi!

    I have a website, where I have cookiebot by usercentrics installed – worked well so far!

    But I just discovered that if I (in incognito of course) decline cookies, so only necessary cookie are loaded. And i navigate through my website, all of the pages have some strange long urls.

    Like: https://example.com/level1/?_gl=1*16197×4*_up*MQ..*_ga*MzMzMjA4NDgyLjE2NzU1OTI0OTQ.*_ga_255JBQT22V*MTY3NTU5MjQ5My4xLjEuMTY3NTU5MjUwMy4wLjAuMA..

    When I accept all cookies the problem is gone, and all urls looks normal.

    Its not always been like this, dont know when it started happening.

    Also I have a few websites which have the exact same setup, which is not producing these long strange urls when I decline cookies. And then I have a few websites that does this behaviour?

    Does anyone have a clue about what is going on? Why is it producing those strange longs urls?


    Cookiebot have detected the following cookies:

    • CookieConsent – necessary
    • _grecaptcha – necessary
    • rc::a – necessary
    • rc::c – necessary
    • rc::b – necessary
    • _GRECAPTCHA – necessary
    • pys_session_limit – statistics
    • pys_start_session – statistics
    • pys_first_visit – statistics
    • pysTrafficSource – statistics
    • pys_landing_page – statistics
    • last_pysTrafficSource – statistics
    • last_pys_landing_page – statistics
    • _ga – statistics
    • _gid – statistics
    • _gat – statistics
    • _ga_# – statistics
    • _fbp – Marketing
    • ads/ga-audiences – Marketing
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  • Plugin Support Frederik Nagels

    (@fnagels)

    Hi,

    The query parameter you see getting added to the URL is part of Google Consent Mode, specifically the “URL passthrough” setting. This essentially adds the data that would normally be stored in Google Analytics’?_ga?cookie to the URL.
    The purpose of this feature is to allow you to pass data from one page to the next in lieu of not being able to use cookies without/prior consent.

    You can disable URL passthrough directly from the WordPress Plugin like shown below:

    View post on imgur.com

    If you have any further questions we recommend that you create a ticket with our support.

    Thread Starter y0gz

    (@y0gz)

    Hi!
    Thank you so much for your reply. That was just the information i needed!

    I wish you a fantastic day.

    Daniel

    Hello, I don’t see this option. Is this option only available in the paid version?

    Thread Starter y0gz

    (@y0gz)

    Hi,

    Hmm, that is strange.
    I think it should be available on both the free and paid version.

    Plugin Support Frederik Nagels

    (@fnagels)

    Hi @yuravw,

    This feature was added in version 4.2.3 of the Plugin and is available for everybody using the WordPress plugin.

    If you version of the plugin is 4.2.3 or newer and you still do not see this feature I would kindly ask you to create a ticket with our support team to troubleshoot the problem further.

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