cookies
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Why do some individuals blogs on WordPress
have their own cookies?
What are they using them for?
And how do they get them from their
blogs onto other people’s browsers?The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I don’t know the answer to that and I would love to hear it. I’m removing tracking cookies from WordPress.com blogs – what the flip is going on?
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I’ve found three blogs so far which put their own cookies on my browser.
By Googling third-party cookies I learned they were used for tracking and collecting info, often ad companies, and didn’t come from the original website (which here is wordpress) I’ve set my browser to reject third party now, so the blogs are easier to see and to avoid. -
May I ask what software is telling you this?
I ask because the “ghostery” browser plug in has alerted me that a technorati cookie is present when visiting one of my own blogs….but it doesn’t happen all the time.
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The normal software of the browser; you don’t even need an add-on or plug-in; all the information is available; click in either tools or options, depending on which browser you’re using.
There are settings to choose whether to accept or block, and you can view a list of which cookies are currently being stored there, with the option to remove as many or few as you wish. -
It’s part of stat tracking. You can’t be distinguished as a unique vs. returning visitor to a specific blog without a cookie from that specific blog.
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staff-blorbo
Please correct me if I’m wrong but I thought that uniques stats were not available to us on our sites stats pages.Can I track other details?
WordPress.com stats do not track unique visitors, IP addresses, or other details. http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ -
Hm, yes, good correction. I’ve been spending too much time with Analytics last week. You win a WordPress.com cookie. It does track uniques vs. regulars, but only for us via Analytics.
If the cookie name you’re referring to is _utma or _utmz (and similar), that’s actually from Google Analytics, which we use to track specific usage, A/B testing, and other such things.
If the cookie name is wp-settings-time- or wp-setting- those are used to store interface preferences for both the admin-side and visitor-side of the site. See http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Cookies#WP_.3E_3 for more details.
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staff-blorbo
Thanks for the reply – understood.
P.S. I like cookies and have been told those I bake are very good. -
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