What is the _ce.s cookie?
This cookie tracks a recording visitor session unique ID, tracking host and start time.
Our October 2026 scan found it on 23 sites (1% of the 2,450 we scanned), set before any consent.
- Purpose
- Analytics
- Belongs to
- Crazy Egg
- Set as
- First-party (under the site's own domain)
- Typical lifetime
- 12 months (vendor says: 1 year) — about what the vendor documents
Sites that set _ce.s before consent
The highest-ranked 23 of 23 sites.
- namecheap.com4 tracking companies
- npr.org9 tracking companies
- independent.co.uk10 tracking companies
- cloudinary.com5 tracking companies
- worldbank.org9 tracking companies
- washington.edu12 tracking companies
- sport24.gr8 tracking companies
- hhs.gov6 tracking companies
- archives.gov3 tracking companies
- virginia.edu7 tracking companies
Show 13 more sites
- ncsu.edu6 tracking companies
- cancer.gov4 tracking companies
- mountain.com11 tracking companies
- vt.edu10 tracking companies
- alchemer.com13 tracking companies
- unep.org10 tracking companies
- voanews.com9 tracking companies
- uscourts.gov5 tracking companies
- studentaid.gov7 tracking companies
- nsf.gov3 tracking companies
- biorxiv.org3 tracking companies
- wondershare.com5 tracking companies
- stlouisfed.org5 tracking companies
Related cookies
Other cookies from Crazy Egg.
- _ce.clock_data4 sites
- cebs4 sites
- cebsp_4 sites
How to stop it
Declining non-essential cookies in a site's consent banner should stop _ce.s 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.