jason310771 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 I have just deleted a stack of cookies from my pc and while do this I found a load of sites i manage that should not be using cookies, i know they dont. yet cookies exist on my pc. the site name is what my site is and the name's of the cookie are "__qca", "__utma", "__utmb" and "__utmz" each one has a different content, the first have for example... P0-1234567-123456789 the next has the same number as before but has other number as well but with . betwwen instead of the dash the other also has similar content and the last again similar... 123456.456789123.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none) why ? how? I have never used cookies and can not understand how these are being stored on the pc. can anyone suggest what it could be ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Do your sites use analytics or similar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason310771 Posted June 15, 2012 Author Share Posted June 15, 2012 yes, but that is google, did not thing they would use my domain for this ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertP Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 the javascript runs on your domain, so the cookies save their aswell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason310771 Posted June 16, 2012 Author Share Posted June 16, 2012 Cookies are not my strong point and I by choice do not use them. But due to the new laws about cookies and that we have to inform visitors before they continue if they consent to having a cookie stored on their pc's or not I need to find a way to stop them being stored but allow for visitors that do. What method or methods could I use to do this without completely removing the Google Analytics. Has anyone got any sites with instruction on how this could be done for a begininer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xyph Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 Cookies are not my strong point and I by choice do not use them. But due to the new laws about cookies and that we have to inform visitors before they continue if they consent to having a cookie stored on their pc's or not I need to find a way to stop them being stored but allow for visitors that do. What method or methods could I use to do this without completely removing the Google Analytics. Has anyone got any sites with instruction on how this could be done for a begininer. Where are these laws?! That's insane, since a user chooses to accept cookies... they're not being 'forced' upon the user at all. Talk about protecting users from themselves :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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