Cookies.remove(itemKey) doesn't work about extension-cookieman

[jonaseberle]

Hi @msollmann,

are these HTML cookies?
Can you share the configuration for the tracking item? Is htmlCookieRemovalPattern involved?

This is the last change AFAIK in that area: 26db500

I would not want document.cookie but rather stick with the js-cookie library (Cookies.remove(...)).
Can you please try with that in your browser's JavaScript console?

Maybe we need to use Cookies.remove('name', { path: '' }) or other parameters?

[Mainbird]

Hi @jonaseberle,

I got the same issue as @msollmann and replacing Cookies.remove(itemKey) with Cookies.remove(itemKey, { path: '' }) did not work for me.

Some cookies like _gid, _ga, or _gcl_au were still present in this case, but
Cookies.remove(itemKey, { path: '', domain: '.' + document.location.host }) is working for me.

[jonaseberle]

That might be specific with Google Cookies. I've seen it even that way:

domain: www.xxx.yy
cookie domain: .xxx.yy

Deleting _gat worked for me with these commands (all work on / as well as on a subpage /subpage):

Cookies.remove('_gat', {domain: '.xxx.yy'})
Cookies.remove('_gat', {path: '/', domain: '.xxx.yy'})
Cookies.remove('_gat', {path: '', domain: '.xxx.yy'})

The path/domain settings of cookies are (to my knowledge) not readable in JavaScript so we will have to try several Cookies.remove(...)s.

So I suggest:

fullDomain = document.location.host # www.xxx.yy
secondLevelDomain = fullDomain.split('.').slice(-2).join('.') # xxx.yy
Cookies.remove(itemKey)
Cookies.remove(itemKey, {path: ''})
Cookies.remove(itemKey, {path: '', domain: fullDomain})
Cookies.remove(itemKey, {path: '', domain: '.' + secondLevelDomain}))

What do you think?

[Mainbird]

Yeah, you are right it's not possible to get the metadata of a cookie. I think this solution is fair enough :).