cookies

the watchman

Hi, is it possible to identify what site placed what cookies on my computer?
Thanks.

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After the fact? No. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie#Third-party_cookie. You can visit abc.com, it sets a cookie for xyz.com. You can't look at that cookie afterwards and find out it was set by abc.com. You'd need to have some sort of monitoring in place before visiting abc.com, e.g. a browser extension

the watchman

Thanks for reply. The only other things that is a mystery to me is that when I clear cache and cookies some cookies stubbornly remain and I have to clear them manually. why is that.

28064212

What browser? Examples of such cookies?

the watchman

So there were approximately 25 and I manually deleted all but the following.
1OUP112Y
2E6JCK46
5TIPPG6U
9NE97XMW
30SBP6LX


Strangely there was also an empty folder named 'LOW' located first above the list of cookies. I have no idea why that was there and as it was empty I have just deleted that also.



windows7 Firefox.

28064212

Where are you deleting those from? Firefox stores all cookies in a single file (called cookies.sqlite).

the watchman

Thanks. I navigate to them via Start>search programs and files and I type in 'shell:cookies' and it shows a folder named cookies and thats where I find them.

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Those are Internet Explorer cookies (and/or cookies used by the Windows operating system). They have nothing to do with Firefox. You can manage your Firefox cookies by going to Tools => Options => Privacy and Security => Show Cookies.