“loverealone” Cookie

Eric • 17th Dec 2007 • Technology

While working on a site today, I noticed a cookie named “loverealone” was set on my machine. The cookie had a value of “real”. I know I didn’t set the cookie. A Google search yielded nothing (well, nothing in English).

Turns out, Google Analytics is setting this cookie! You can see in their code the following line:

var start=cookieString.indexOf(“loverealone=”)

Well, at least now I know it’s not spyware. Back to work…