Cookie gets changed when hit comes from a referrer

Denis McMahon denismfmcmahon at gmail.com
Tue Oct 8 11:55:01 EDT 2013


On Tue, 08 Oct 2013 13:04:34 +0300, Νίκος Αλεξόπουλος wrote:

> I use this code to retrive or set a cookie to the visitor's browser if
> present and identify him bu it.

You are aware that using cookies to track a user who doesn't want to be 
tracked won't work, because he'll just tell his browser to not use 
cookies, aren't you.

Nick, if a user doesn't want to be tracked, you can't track them. The 
user controls all the data their machine sends to you. This means that 
they can manipulate it. Nothing you can do will prevent this.

-- 
Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon at gmail.com



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