: What does "Slightly longer" mean in EU cookie law? Since my site serves worldwide users, I feel it must comply with EU laws, especially the cookie law. I have some things on my site that

@Si4351233

The reason why the term "slightly longer" is used is that different websites have needs to have the cookies last different durations past the end of the session. The basic interpretation of this wording is that the cookie should not last too long after the end of the session as sessions tend to die due to a user exiting a site without clicking on a logout link and there needs to be wiggle room as to how long the session has been idle for and so deemed abandoned and when the cookie is removed, especially as the cookie needs to die based on expire date and not based on the end of the session (which would be on the server and not the browser if the user has left the site and the session has timed out). The basic premise is that the cookie should not last to cover multiple sessions, it should only last to cover a single session. How you implement that is up to you.

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