One blooking cookie for all web browsers

[colin_usher]

I am a Mac user and although I mostly use Safari, I have 6 other browsers I occasionally use mainly to check my web site's appearance on them. I have to set a blocking cookie on each one and it seems that as I block one browser another 'unblocks'. Can't we have one cookie to block all browsers in one go?

Colin

Hi Colin,

Only the browser itself can set its own cookie and creating a blocking cookie on one browser can not delete a blocking cookie another browser. They use their own software for storing and managing cookies. it's browser dependent not operating system dependent.

But perhaps your browsers are configured to delete all cookies when the browser exits, or perhaps the blocking cookies were not created in the first case.

[andrewglen]

I would guess that each statcounter account can only have one blocking cookie and as the majority of users stick to one browser this works most of the time. If a new browser is used then a new cookie associated with that browser will overide the previous blocking cookie.....unless statcounter can be reconfigured to block a list of cookies (from a list of browsers). :idea:

[colin_usher]

I am a Mac user and although I mostly use Safari, I have 6 other browsers I occasionally use mainly to check my web site's appearance on them. I have to set a blocking cookie on each one and it seems that as I block one browser another 'unblocks'. Can't we have one cookie to block all browsers in one go?

Colin

Thanks guys
I have just checked the cookies on each of my 7 browsers and reset those that weren't blocked. They all expire either January or February 2010 which I guess is right. I'll keep an eye on them. I do use 'cleaning' software such as Cocktail & OnyX. Maybe one of those deletes some browser cookies & not others. I'll have to check.
Thanks.

Colin

[davep4hpg]

I would guess that each statcounter account can only have one blocking cookie and as the majority of users stick to one browser this works most of the time. If a new browser is used then a new cookie associated with that browser will overide the previous blocking cookie.....

It's not actually like that Andrew, I've got 4 browsers set up on one PC, and I regularly use 2 of them. Once I'd set the blooking cookies on each browser, they don't overide each other in any way. Occasionally, one of the browsers seems to lose it's blocking cookies for all of my sites, but that's rare and most probably down to lack of care when I'm cleaning junk off the PC.