Cookie Keeper functionality for custom build websites

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Hi,

I don’t quite understand the cookie keeper docummentation - Do I understand correctly, that I need to create a master cookie myself as I’m not using WP, Magento or Shopify plugin?

Are there any tags available that do that?

I also set the identifier to be stored in a local storage under stape_user_id, but I don’t see anything when I check.

Thanks for the help!

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I don’t quite understand the cookie keeper docummentation - Do I understand correctly, that I need to create a master cookie myself as I’m not using WP, Magento or Shopify plugin?

yes

Are there any tags available that do that?

no, if it was possible with a tag there wouldn’t be a need for cookie keeper in the first place

I also set the identifier to be stored in a local storage under stape_user_id, but I don’t see anything when I check.

not sure what you mean exactly, but you’re not choosing where to store it, you’re choosing which entity Cookie Keper is referencing as master cookie. As outlined above it will not create it on it’s own.

Requirements for master cookie are here: Prolong first-party cookie lifetime set by a third-party IP - Stape

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Thanks, Dan, for your quick response. I have a few more questions:

  1. The instructions are if I choose a cookie as identifier, right?
  2. If I understand correctly it needs to be set this way so it’s treated as a first-party cookie by the browsers and not deleted?
  3. If I choose Stape user ID, I don’t have to create anything myself?
  4. For other purposes I already have an identifier placed in a local storage. I have set this up using web GTM. Could I use this identifier? Are there any downsides?

Thanks!

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  1. yes
  2. yes, precisely
  3. you don’t but due to nature of user-id the ‘coverage’ of successful cookie keeper work would be lesser than if you had a cookie
  4. any scriptable storage will be purged on Safari after 7 days, that includes Local Storage. So it will work but again, you’d have much less successful cases than otherwise
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Got it! Thanks for the help!