How to identify what Cookies your Blog is using
>> Saturday, June 02, 2012
You asked how to identify what cookies your site is using in order to even make a start on getting to grips with the new cookie privacy law.
This isn't my area of expertise but I've had a good poke around. If you have a fair idea of what your blog is doing in terms of widgets/gadgets then you probably stand a good chance of guessing what is putting down cookies but there are a couple of things I have found that made it very clear to me:
I really found this useful http://tagcert.com/pricing_free Put in your email and website address and with 5 minutes I got a mail back nicely detailing all the cookies used by my site. I've yet to see the marketing spam fallout from doing it but actually I think the mail itself will be worth it. This should give the Average Joe Blog(ger) what you need.
But I thought, no, come on Kelloggsville you owe these people....
If you haven't already, install Mozilla FireFox. Then from your mozilla browser go to addon Lightbeam. This will show you a big yellow 'Add to Firefox' button. Go for it.
Now open up your site from the Firefox browser.
Down on the bottom right you get a circle (stick with it it took me a life time of fiddling to get there)



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