What is the __cmpconsent* cookie?
Consent String of the IAB CMP Framework (TCF) v2 specific to a single account in our platform.
Our October 2026 scan found it on 18 sites (1% of the 2,450 we scanned), set before any consent.
- Purpose
- Functional
- Belongs to
- Consentmanager.net
- Set as
- First-party (under the site's own domain)
- Typical lifetime
- 14 days (vendor says: 1 year) — shorter than the vendor documents
- Name
- A family of cookies: the part after __cmpconsent varies by site or account.
Sites that set __cmpconsent* before consent
The highest-ranked 18 of 18 sites.
- media.net6 tracking companies
- merriam-webster.com5 tracking companies
- dw.com0 tracking companies
- sciencedaily.com3 tracking companies
- loteriasdominicanas.com14 tracking companies
- engadget.com5 tracking companies
- shorturl.at1 tracking company
- adthrive.com3 tracking companies
- slashdot.org0 tracking companies
- thingiverse.com4 tracking companies
Show 8 more sites
- coingecko.com3 tracking companies
- urbandictionary.com3 tracking companies
- uefa.com3 tracking companies
- salon.com6 tracking companies
- macrumors.com6 tracking companies
- visualcapitalist.com9 tracking companies
- worldtimeserver.com3 tracking companies
- finanzen.net2 tracking companies
How to stop it
Declining non-essential cookies in a site's consent banner should stop __cmpconsent* being set on later visits. Blocking third-party cookies in your browser settings stops the third-party kind everywhere, and clearing cookies for a site removes any it already set.
Description from the Open Cookie Database (Apache 2.0).
Understanding this page
- How cookie lifetimes work, and why a 13-month _ga matters
What a cookie's "expires" field actually controls, why Google Analytics ships a 2-year default that many sites cut down to 13 months, and how Safari's 7-day cap on script-set cookies changes the picture.
- First-party vs third-party cookies (and why "first-party" still tracks you)
What the distinction actually means technically, why browsers only block one of the two, and how CNAME cloaking, server-side tagging and cookies like _ga let sites keep tracking under their own domain.
- How to block or limit trackers
Browser privacy settings, content blockers, Global Privacy Control and clearing cookies compared honestly — what each one actually stops, what it doesn't, and what it costs you in return.