We found out that we might have misunderstood the “Cookieless” part in the Cookieless embedding documentation.
According to the documentation, Cookieless embedding is used when the browser blocks third party cookie. It does NOT mean Looker doesn’t generate cookies in these cases.
I would like to get confirmation that this is the correct understanding. If so, is there a configuration wherein we can completely block the usage of cookies by the embedded dashboards?
sam8
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Your understanding is correct. Looker’s cookieless embedding is a way to allow strict embed hosts to embed “looker.com” dashboards without changing your Looker host URL to match your embed host website URL. It doesn’t stop Looker from generating cookies.
To my knowledge, there isn’t a way to completely block Looker from using and generating cookies. Can you tell me more about why you’d want that?
Hi @sam8 thanks for taking a look. We just wanted to make sure that the embedded dashboards would still work even if our users blocked third-party cookies. In this case, does this mean third-party cookies should always be allowed for embedded dashboards to work?
sam8
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Hm, that I don’t know. My intuition says it should be fine, but I can’t say for sure. I wonder if anyone else here has any experience with end users enabling/disabling third party cookies?