cookie-cat v1.4.3 is now available to download from wordpress.org
Cookie-category v1.2.0 – tested with PHP 7.1
This site is now running cookie-category v1.2.0 which has been tested with PHP 7.1 and WordPress 4.7.3.
Privacy policy broken links
A couple of months ago I noticed that the link to Google’s video about cookies was broken. The “Good to Know” video is still available on the How Google uses cookies page. You may want to update your Privacy policy page.
cookie-cat updated to WordPress 4.4
The cookie-cat website has now been updated to WordPress 4.4
cookie-cat gets a makeover
Almost exactly three years after its launch in May 2012, the cookie-cat site has been remodelled.
cookie-cat plugin under review on WordPress.org
The cookie-cat plugin on has recently been reviewed. It appears there are some issues to address with regards to unauthorized passing of cookie information from the client website to the cookie-cat server. We are working to resolve these issues.
cookies mapped recently
Cookies that have recently been mapped to plugins (during week 50) include.
cookie-cat being updated to WordPress 3.5
Just to let you know that cookie-cat is going to be offline as it gets upgraded to WordPress 3.5 If your cookie catalog XML file contains a load of “unknown” values then please can you try again later.
Backlog of plugins to analyze just over 800
Of the 1700 or so downloads of from only 10% have actually used the cookie-cat options page to load the most up to date cookie-cat XML file from this server. This is a blessing in disguise since the backlog of plugins to analyze is not increasing too dramatically BUT it has now exceeded 800.
Processed 50 plugins starting with letter A
It’s a slow and laborious process, even when partly automated, but this afternoon I analyzed approximately 50 plugins that start with the letter A and that cookie-cat users have active on their websites. I found 8 new cookies
cookies mapped during weeks 27 & 28
Cookies that have recently been mapped to plugins (during weeks 27 and 28) include.
cookie-cat updates: week 24
Cookies that have recently been mapped to plugins (during week 24) include
cookie-cat updates: new cookies added to the catalog
Cookies that have recently been mapped to plugins include
cookie-cat v1.1 – lapping up the requests
Version 1.1 of cookie-cat delivers a new feature that will enable your website to keep abreast of the latest information on cookies.
Preparing for cookie-cat v1.1
Version 1.1 of the cookie-cat WordPress plugin will be able to query the cookie-cat database of cookies, plugins and cooking to plugin mappings in order that cookie-cat can predict the cookies that your website may serve.
cookie-cat plugin v1.1 in alpha test
I am getting close to releasing version 1.1 of the plugin. I am currently alpha testing it on a number of sites; including and sites
Two steps to compliance with the UK cookie law
There now appear to be only TWO steps to compliance with the UK cookie law: Have a Privacy Policy page List the cookies in use
__qca cookie used by jetpack plugin stats module
Obsolete The following information is obsolete. Quantcast was removed from Jetpack in version 2.8, on January 31, 2014. See The Jetpack plugin includes a module called stats which does quite a nice job of displaying At-A-Glance site statistics in your WordPress Admin pages. In order to achieve this it uses a set of external JavaScript […]
just updating some plugins
I’m just about to update some plugins to add the ability to display custom columns (metadata) for the custom post types on the cookies, plugins and mapping pages.
__qca cookie – category 2 or 3?
Quantcast’s privacy policy doesn’t reference the __qca cookie by name, but it hints as to what functions it performs with cookies in general. They’re quite vague about it, though, which is probably to give them the freedom to do what they want with the information they record. The summary from Quantcast’s ‘log data’ section is […]