It was announced this week that Safari will, from Autumn this year, no longer accept new HTTPS certificates that expire more than 13 months from their creation date. That means websites using multi-year SSL/TLS certs issued after the cut-off point will throw up privacy errors in Apple's browser.What this means is that from the 1st of September 2020 any new website cert valid for longer than 398 days will not be trusted by the Safari browser. However, older certificates issued prior to that date will still be able to maintain the standard ...

What Chrome 80's SameSite Cookie changes mean...With roughly two-thirds of the world-wide browser share, Chrome is easily the most popular web-browser in the world, so when they announce that they're changing how cookies work, and that it might break things, that's a big deal.What are they doing?For a while now, cookies have supported a property called 'SameSite'. This allows a developer control of when a cookie should be sent to a page, and it's an important step in preventing a security vulnerability called "Cross Site Request Forgery" ...

The Cookiebot scan process runs monthly and will visit every discoverable page on your site.  This will potentially cause a spike in your analytics reports if not filtered.This is simple to achieve in Google Analytics by adding an IP Filter, here are the steps: In the Admin section, under the View panel, choose the Filters option Add a new filter using the Add Filter button Give you new filter a meaningful name, e.g. Exclude Cookiebot IP Addresses Under Filter Type select the Exclude option and select IP Address in the Filter Feed ...

3chillies have partnered with the cookie and online tracking consent solution experts Cookiebot, to offer a solution to make it easier for companies to live up to GDPR regulations, while also making these complex changes understandable to the end user.Since the advent of GDPR in 2018, the world of data control and processing has been a complicated place, even on websites where little or no consumer data is gathered or recorded. If your website is serving individuals from the EU and you - or embedded third party services like Google and ...

If you’re a Sitecore customer or developer, you may know that Sitecore 10 was released over the Summer. For the 3chillies team, a new release is always exciting and naturally appeals to our inner geekiness. We also know that, in time, it will have a huge positive impact on our clients.We’ve worked with Sitecore for over a decade now, and one of reasons we love working with the platform is that it continues to evolve and broaden - Sitecore has never rested on its laurels and continues to invest.As with all Sitecore releases, we’re having ...

Over the Summer, Sitecore 10 was released, bringing with it a range of new features and capabilities which will be of interest to both developers and digital marketing teams. In my first post, we looked at how features around container support and content serialisation will deliver value for development teams. Now it’s the turn of digital marketers and what Sitecore 10 delivers for them.One of the reasons we love working with Sitecore is the continuing investment in the platform. Each new release brings new capabilities, but also ...

 The way you manage cookies on your website is important from both a regulatory and a brand perspective. However, many website managers and digital teams regard cookie management as a necessary evil, something that they have to do to comply with laws and regulations and that the majority of users don’t actually care about that much. To be honest, we completely understand that  view – cookie management can get in the way of user experience with the messages that appear to new visitors and has the potential to drain time for busy web ...

3chillies has a strong track record of working with public sector organisations and government departments. Building on our commitment to delivering great services and solutions to the public sector  that offer real value for money, we’re pleased to announce that we are now listed on the G-Cloud 12 framework.G-Cloud 12 is a list of government-approved suppliers that helps UK public sector organisations to access cloud computing services more easily. This makes procurement processes smoother and quicker and provides confidence to public ...