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hubspotutk Cookie: What It Is and How HubSpot Uses It to Identify Visitors COOKIES
COOKIES· Nov 2, 2026·4 min read

hubspotutk Cookie: What It Is and How HubSpot Uses It to Identify Visitors

hubspotutk is the cookie that turns an anonymous website visitor into a named contact in HubSpot.

MS Maria Sanzio Read →
_uetvid Cookie: What It Is and How Long Microsoft Keeps It COOKIES
COOKIES· Nov 2, 2026·3 min read

_uetvid Cookie: What It Is and How Long Microsoft Keeps It

Where _uetsid tracks one visit, _uetvid tracks the visitor. It’s the long-lived ID that Microsoft Advertising’s Universal Event Tracking (UET) tag stores…

RB Rex Bautista Read →
_uetsid Cookie: What It Is and How Microsoft Advertising Uses It COOKIES
COOKIES· Nov 2, 2026·3 min read

_uetsid Cookie: What It Is and How Microsoft Advertising Uses It

Advertisers who run campaigns on Microsoft Advertising (Bing, Microsoft Start and partner sites) install a Universal Event Tracking, or UET, tag to…

AP Alex Proctor Read →
cf_clearance Cookie: What It Is and Why Cloudflare Sets It After a Challenge COOKIES
COOKIES· Nov 2, 2026·4 min read

cf_clearance Cookie: What It Is and Why Cloudflare Sets It After a Challenge

If you’ve ever waited on a “Checking your browser” page or ticked a Cloudflare Turnstile box, you’ve been given a cf_clearance cookie.

SS Sam Seliger Read →
__gads Cookie: What It Is and How Google Uses It on Publisher Sites COOKIES
COOKIES· Nov 2, 2026·3 min read

__gads Cookie: What It Is and How Google Uses It on Publisher Sites

Any site that earns money from Google ads will almost certainly set __gads.

RR Richart Ruddie Read →
CookieConsent Cookie: What It Is and How Cookiebot Stores Consent COOKIES
COOKIES· Nov 2, 2026·4 min read

CookieConsent Cookie: What It Is and How Cookiebot Stores Consent

CookieConsent is the cookie Cookiebot, the consent platform from Usercentrics, uses to remember a visitor’s choices.

MS Maria Sanzio Read →
fr Cookie: What It Is and How Meta Uses It for Advertising COOKIES
COOKIES· Nov 2, 2026·4 min read

fr Cookie: What It Is and How Meta Uses It for Advertising

The fr cookie is Meta’s main advertising cookie.

RB Rex Bautista Read →
test_cookie Cookie: What It Is and Why Google’s Ad Servers Set It COOKIES
COOKIES· Nov 2, 2026·4 min read

test_cookie Cookie: What It Is and Why Google’s Ad Servers Set It

The name sounds harmless, and in a way it is. test_cookie is a short-lived cookie that Google sets on the doubleclick.net domain…

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PHPSESSID Cookie: What It Is, Why Your Site Sets It and Whether It Needs Consent COOKIES
COOKIES· Nov 2, 2026·4 min read

PHPSESSID Cookie: What It Is, Why Your Site Sets It and Whether It Needs Consent

PHPSESSID turns up on WordPress sites, ecommerce stores, membership portals and almost any custom app built on PHP.

SS Sam Seliger Read →
_gid Cookie: What It Is, How Long It Lasts and Whether It Needs Consent COOKIES
COOKIES· Nov 2, 2026·5 min read

_gid Cookie: What It Is, How Long It Lasts and Whether It Needs Consent

If a cookie scan of your site lists _gid, Google Analytics code is running somewhere on your pages.

RR Richart Ruddie Read →
Does Rejecting Cookies Mean Rejecting Analytics? PostHog’s Cookieless Mode Tests Privacy Law COOKIES
COOKIES· Oct 31, 2026·20 min read

Does Rejecting Cookies Mean Rejecting Analytics? PostHog’s Cookieless Mode Tests Privacy Law

PostHog Cookieless Tracking After Cookie Rejection: Is It Legal Under GDPR, CCPA and EU Privacy Laws?

MS Maria Sanzio Read →
The Fnac App Asked, Users Said No, and the Tracker Kept Running: Inside the CNIL’s €7 Million Fine COOKIES
COOKIES· Oct 29, 2026·1 min read

The Fnac App Asked, Users Said No, and the Tracker Kept Running: Inside the CNIL’s €7 Million Fine

France’s data protection authority, the CNIL, has fined two Fnac companies a combined €7 million over a tracker in the retailer’s mobile…

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