I want to read the content of a cookie that someone put on my computer

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I'm gonna present you here misconceptions, so forgive my ignorance.
Firstly, once a cookie is placed in a device that I have paid for, I consider it mine, and demand to know what's in there. i've been told that a cookie will be given to me but i had not much choices.

As I understand so far I can read only a limited amount of information that it contains, but I want all of it, every single thing it does, because it's being given to me and it's mine.

So please school me how to do this.

any other suggestion is welcomed
calling me a scam is welcomed
''not having the '''''''''''''right'''''' to do it'' is welcomed
please express yourself on this matter as you pleased

Thank you very much

What I have tried:

var x = document.cookie;

Posted 21-Sep-20 2:50am

tool__

Updated 21-Sep-20 5:59am

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Richard MacCutchan 21-Sep-20 10:02am

I agree, you are entitled to all the information it contains.

tool__ 21-Sep-20 11:28am

Thanks for seeing my point

F-ES Sitecore 21-Sep-20 10:30am

Use the dev tools on your browser to see what's in the cookie, or go to the folder when your browser stores cookies and look for it there.

tool__ 21-Sep-20 11:39am

I can see and edit the cookies with the browser's dev tools... I was suspecting that this is not all the information but some of it...
here is the misconceptions that i'm talking about in the original post...

I suppose from your comment that the information that appears in the dev tool it's all there is... thats all the content of the cookie... (correct me if im wrong)

And the actual privacy issue is that the cookies of one site can be read by an other (please correct me if I have misconceived it again)

F-ES Sitecore 21-Sep-20 11:59am

Yes, that's all that's there. Cookies of one site can't be read by another.

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2020-09-21T05:59:00

Solution 1

This is a situation where "you can" and "you can't".

Depending on the browser caching the cookie, there is either going to be a text file on the drive or it's stored in a database only the browser is going to have access to. If it's files, it relatively easy. You just have to find the path to the folder location of the cookies and drop one on Notepad to see what's in it. If it's the database type, well, good luck opening that.

The other problem is cookie data does not have to be straight readable text. It can be a bunch of numerical data that is encoding or encrypting data in the cookie. There's just no way you're going to be able to decode or decrypt that data without the websites developers help.

Posted 21-Sep-20 5:59am

Dave Kreskowiak

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tool__ 21-Sep-20 12:56pm

I mainly use mozilla because of the FOSS marketing that I have eaten, and yes it does keep database
the files are:

cookies.sqlite
cookies.sqlite-shm
cookies.sqlite-wal

I searched the disk for ''sqlite'' and I found them
currently i'm fighting with the sqlite3.exe to open them.
But as F-ES Sitecore said above there's nothing more there than what the dev tools of the browser are displaying, so I give up.
(please say which browsers store cookies in plain text)
______________________________________________________________________

I want to tell you here what spooked me.
I have an old account in a forum and recently I created a new one. but I used for the new one TOR to do it and a disposable email...

Shortly after the admin deleted the new account and sent a message to my old account informing me that ''I know it was you''

That was not my intention, I was trying not to connect those two accounts and I dont think I have to apologise for this, but as a rookie I messed up, cookies is the only answer that I can think, maybe by mistake I visited the website with my main browser, the site lists the devices that used by the accounts but the account was deleted so fast that i didn't manage to get there in time... I don't want to think that TOR is broken...

Any thoughts are very welcomed

The scam of your neighborhood

Dave Kreskowiak 21-Sep-20 13:39pm

My thought is I'm not getting involved in that.

tool__ 21-Sep-20 13:54pm

Fair enough, however I will insist not doing what I supposed to do, not using things ''correctly'' and not feeling guilty and apologising for it.
Thank you all very much