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Unexpected cookies and redirect
2 replies · Started by Bernhard on April 5, 2019
Hi,
I found strange redirects and cookies on one page of my site.
Until now I did not find other pages on my site, where this happens.
Please have a look on the redirects on Gtmetrix
There are a lot of redirects which shall not be there. The cookies I found are addthis.com, casalemedia.com, everesttech.net, mookie1.com, quantserve.com, target.com, beacon.walmart.com. Until now, I found the cookies only on this one page in German. The English and Italian versions are not affected (there are only 4 groups of cookies which is correct (booking.com, widget.getyourguide.com, tourist-in-rom.com, http://www.tourist-in-rom.com)
I checked with my host provider and they say, the site is clean.
I had a link on my page to an external page and on that page I found the same cookies.
Have you any idea how to solve this?
Thank you
Bernhard
Update: I disabled Google Adsense on most of the pages and the cookies and redirects disappeared on these pages. I had a look at the Google cookie policy and the cookies, which I found, are not documented there.
Disabling Adsense, I see in Gtmetrix a reduced load time, e reduced page size and an improved page speed score.
I'm quite convinced that the cookies and redirects I found are not GDPR compliant and I'm wondering, whether there is a way to control them. Actually, Adsense seems to be completely out of control, setting cookies here and redirects there, slowing down the site about 50%.
How can I keep this under control?
This is an issue with any sort of ad service, unfortunately, as they will all make requests to external servers that will set cookies/redirects.
The only way to prevent this is to host ads locally, which of course isn't possible with services like Adsense.
