Title: Cookies
Last modified: October 10, 2018

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# Cookies

 *  Resolved [Chaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eternalskychaz/)
 * (@eternalskychaz)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cookies-53/)
 * In general, WordPress leaves cookies if a visitor opens an account, makes a comment
   or otherwise participates in a site. But what f a site is set up so that no one
   can “interact” with a site, other than to read content? What if no one can sign
   up, no one can comment on anything and no one can send a message to the site 
   owner except via regular e-mail or click a link that will take them to an item
   for sale on Amazon? Will WP still leave cookies?
 * If so, can this function be disabled?
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  [Santiago](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sjaure/)
 * (@sjaure)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cookies-53/#post-10765395)
 * Hi Chaz,
 * If you refer to session cookies, the answer is no. WordPress won’t set any authentication
   or session cookie for logged out visitors.
    **But**, keep in mind that session
   cookies are not the only cookies used **and** that WordPress core is not the 
   only one setting cookies for your domain: in a normal site you have several plugins,
   themes, and third party libraries storing cookies on visitors browsers to provide
   a variety of features. A great tool to see this is the browser dev tools (F12
   in chrome). See this capture for wordpress.org landing page [https://ibb.co/gZ9R4U](https://ibb.co/gZ9R4U)
   As you can see, I’m not logged in but I still get some cookies stored. In this
   case most of them are used for Analytics purposes and set by Google Analytics
   JS library (you can’t avoid it, except you get rid of the library completely).
 * Hope this shed some light.
    Take care!
 *  Thread Starter [Chaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eternalskychaz/)
 * (@eternalskychaz)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cookies-53/#post-10765508)
 * [@sjaure](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sjaure/)
 * Thank you very much. Upon inspection of the test site I have created for my client,
   as per your example, Google Chrome shows no cookies of any kind, which is great.
   If that changes when the real site is built and live, I’ll just nuke the GA JS
   and be done with it.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Chaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eternalskychaz/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cookies-53/#post-10765508)
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