Purpose of safeLocalStorage cookie

[s-moon (Stephen Moon)]

Could anyone please tell me the purpose of this cookie?

safeLocalStorage

This cookie was flagged by a system called CookieBot and found on our /login page.

It doesn’t appear in this list:

List of cookies used by Discourse

Name Essential Expires Description email Y Session Used during account creation destination_url Y Session Used during login to redirect to the requested page sso_destination_url Y Session Used during SSO login to redirect to the requested page authentication_data Y next page view Used during full-screen login to return data to the JavaScript application fsl Y Session Full screen login client setting theme_key Y Forever Client theme personalization. Only used when “Make this my …

And I can’t see any mention of it by searching here.

Oddly, when I visit our site, log in, log out, etc. I can’t see the cookie so am wondering whether it is temporarily created and then removed? We need to classify/remove this cookie for as part of the UK’s cookie rules.

Our forum is version: 2.8.0.beta8, running in Docker, on Linux.

Thank you, Steve

[Benjamin_D (Benjamin Decotte)]

Not a cookie per se but // A simple key value store that uses LocalStorage, it // makes sure we can write to the local storage

localStorage can be browsed for instance in the application tab of the Chrome Developer Tools :