Title: Why the cookie
Last modified: May 5, 2018

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# Why the cookie

 *  Resolved [Juergen Schulze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1manfactory/)
 * (@1manfactory)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-the-cookie/)
 * Because of GDPR I want to remove every plugin using cookies on front end.
 * Why do you set a cookie in class.SSLInsecureContentFixerAdmin?

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 *  Plugin Author [webaware](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webaware/)
 * (@webaware)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-the-cookie/#post-10250926)
 * G’day Juergen,
 * That cookie is used as a quick-and-dirty way to authenticate between the WordPress
   admin pages and the test scripts which live outside of WordPress in the plugin
   folders. It expires after 30 seconds and does not persist in the browser.
 * Nevertheless, I’ll be replacing it with a different method in the next release,
   due before the GDPR comes into effect.
 * cheers,
    Ross
 *  Thread Starter [Juergen Schulze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1manfactory/)
 * (@1manfactory)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-the-cookie/#post-10251126)
 * That would be simply GREAT
    Thanks
 *  Plugin Author [webaware](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webaware/)
 * (@webaware)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-the-cookie/#post-10253728)
 * Here’s a dev copy of the next version, with cookie removed. I hope to release
   it this week sometime.
 * [https://www.dropbox.com/s/dr85e7xvwz8k662/ssl-insecure-content-fixer-2.6.0-dev.zip?dl=1](https://www.dropbox.com/s/dr85e7xvwz8k662/ssl-insecure-content-fixer-2.6.0-dev.zip?dl=1)
 * cheers,
    Ross
 *  Thread Starter [Juergen Schulze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1manfactory/)
 * (@1manfactory)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-the-cookie/#post-10265103)
 * Thanks very much for your affords

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 * Last reply from: [Juergen Schulze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1manfactory/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-the-cookie/#post-10265103)
 * Status: resolved