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List all cookies used on your site (WordPress plugin)
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Incomplete cookie scan results? Some comparisons. #1

Closed ghost closed 5 years ago

ghost commented 5 years ago

Thanks for creating this plugin. It's a missing piece for a lot of GDPR functionality available at the moment since most plugins charge for this functionality.

Show Me The Cookies reports 13 cookies and says this is a "list of all current cookies used on your site".

A partial scan (only 5 pages of the website) by Cookiebot reports 14 cookies.

Cookie Quick Manager plugin[1] for Firefox reports 17 cookies.

Is SMTC missing some cookies on the website?

1: https://addons.mozilla.org/ga-IE/firefox/addon/cookie-quick-manager/

(Edit: changed numbers of cookies found by other plugins, as they were counting some set by the logged in admin user).

versluis commented 5 years ago

Hi! The plugin is very simple and lists everything thats exposed in the $_COOKIE variable provided by the browser. WordPress pulls this in, and I'm iterating through the values for sanitised display. There's a shortcode to display either all cookies, or remove the ones that WordPress uses internally. I've explained more in this release article. Hope this helps!