What is the consentUUID cookie?
This cookie is used as a unique identification for the users who has accepted the cookie consent box.
Our October 2026 scan found it on 25 sites (1% of the 2,450 we scanned), set before any consent.
- Purpose
- Functional
- Belongs to
- Cookiebot
- 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 consentUUID before consent
The highest-ranked 25 of 25 sites.
- theguardian.com0 tracking companies
- dailymotion.com2 tracking companies
- ft.com4 tracking companies
- theatlantic.com4 tracking companies
- crazygames.com0 tracking companies
- aftonbladet.se1 tracking company
- iltalehti.fi0 tracking companies
- programme-tv.net2 tracking companies
- hola.com9 tracking companies
- sky.com5 tracking companies
Show 15 more sites
- vice.com14 tracking companies
- wunderground.com5 tracking companies
- techradar.com6 tracking companies
- livescience.com6 tracking companies
- freenet.de4 tracking companies
- tomshardware.com6 tracking companies
- tagesspiegel.de1 tracking company
- timeout.com1 tracking company
- space.com6 tracking companies
- formula1.com3 tracking companies
- myfitnesspal.com1 tracking company
- foreignpolicy.com22 tracking companies
- xda-developers.com5 tracking companies
- tomsguide.com7 tracking companies
- collider.com5 tracking companies
Related cookies
Other cookies from Cookiebot.
- CookieConsent3 sites
How to stop it
Declining non-essential cookies in a site's consent banner should stop consentUUID 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.