[EN] Collecting the visitor ID from a Snoobi cookie

Finding your Snoobi Visitor ID

For some oprations, Snoobi Analytics stores a cookie in the storage of a webbrowser after consent is provided.

A cookie is a small piece of data stored by a website on a user’s browser.
Users can view cookies to see what data websites store about them.
Most browsers allow users to inspect, read, and manage cookies through developer tools.

Knowing your cookie-ID is needed when you want to ask the owner of a website what details they have from you.
Without that information the website owner cannot determine that you are the legal owner of that information and will not be able to provide any information.

In order to see the cookie with your Snoobi ID you need to do a few steps such as the details below.

Note that if there is no cookie for the Snoobi ID then there also is no information in the web analytics reports that can ever be traced back to you, meaning you are completely anonymous.

Here are the steps to read cookies in major browsers, other browsers have similar steps.
There may also be add-ons or plugins you can use to read the Snoobi Cookie with the name SnoobiiD

A. Google Chrome

• Open Google Chrome.
• Visit the website for which you want to check the Snoobi cookie.
• Press F12 or Ctrl + Shift + I (Windows/Linux) or Cmd + Option + I (Mac) to open DevTools.
• Click the “Application” tab.
• In the left sidebar, under Storage, click “Cookies”.
• Select the website’s domain.
• The cookies stored for the site will be listed in a table with name and other details
• Select the cookie called 'SnoobiID' and copy the complete details (in the form of a range of numbers followed by '-' and a sequence of characters)
  
  

B. Mozilla Firefox

• Open Firefox.
• Visit the website for which you want to check the Snoobi cookie.
• Press F12 or Ctrl + Shift + I (Windows/Linux) or Cmd + Option + I (Mac) to open DevTools.
• Click the “Storage” tab.
• Under Cookies, select the website’s domain.
• The cookies will be displayed in a table.
• Select the cookie called 'SnoobiID' and copy the complete details (in the form of a range of numbers followed by '-' and a sequence of characters)
  
  

C. Microsoft Edge

• Open Edge.
• Visit the website for which you want to check the Snoobi cookie.
• Press F12 or Ctrl + Shift + I to open DevTools.
• Click the “Application” tab.
• Under Storage, select Cookies.
• Choose the website’s domain to see the cookies.

D. Safari (Mac & iOS)

• Open Safari.
• Enable the Develop menu (if not enabled):
• Go to Safari > Settings (Preferences) > Advanced.
• Check Show Develop menu in menu bar.
  Visit the website for which you want to check the Snoobi cookie.
• Click Develop > Show Web Inspector or press Option + Cmd + I.
• Go to the storage tab, then cookies.
• Select the website’s domain to see the cookies.
• Select the cookie called 'SnoobiID' and copy the complete details (in the form of a range of numbers followed by '-' and a sequence of characters)

Final Notes

Many browsers block third-party cookies by default for privacy, when there is no SnoobiId cookie then you actions on the website can never be traced backc to you personally as there is nothing that uniquely identifies you.

You can also delete cookies from these menus if needed.