Site-Wide Options Management

Managing your GRC cookie

Q:Huh?  A GRC cookie?!!
A:Yes.  As new technologies are developed, GRC will be offering its visitors various optional new features and services. GRC's first-party cookie is 'sticky' (persistent) and if not blocked, it will be set, retained, and returned by your web browser to tell us what site features you have chosen to use.

Please also note that the GRC cookie contains a built-in "timestamp" that allows us to determine when the cookie was last set in your browser. This is used below and on our cookie exploration pages to provide you with feedback about the current operation of your browser's cookie management system.

 Introduction

This "SiteOptions" page allows you to customize the GRC web site to suit your individual taste and wishes. Your current settings are shown below. Simply change them if desired then submit the changes to your browser.


 GRC cookie status:  Cookie was invalid.

A "www.grc.com" domain cookie was received from your web browser during its request for the display of this cookie management page.

However, the "cryptoken" portion of the GRC cookie, which stores the cookie's timestamp and site option flag bits, was either missing or in some way invalid.

This should be automatically repaired if you submit the form below to send your browser a new web page offering it a valid-format GRC cookie whose settings you may specify in detail below.

After sending your browser that page, you may return here to determine whether your browser is returning the cookie it was offered and, if so, to view its current settings . . .




 Update your GRC site cookie:

Only a few option bit settings are in use at this time, though any may be set or reset for experimental purposes. It is probably a good idea not to leave any undefined bits set to "on", since they would take effect in the future when those bit flags started being used.

Specify any options you desire, then submit the form to update your browser's cookie:

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Enable TPC in-menu notification
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