What is the everest_g_v2 cookie?
This cookie stores the browser and surfer ID.Created after a user initially clicks a client's ad, and used to map the current and subsequent clicks with other events on the client's website.
Our October 2026 scan found it on 59 sites (2% of the 2,450 we scanned), set before any consent.
- Purpose
- Advertising
- Belongs to
- Adobe Advertising
- Set as
- Third-party (under another company's domain)
- Typical lifetime
- 12 months (vendor says: 2 years) — shorter than the vendor documents
Sites that set everest_g_v2 before consent
The highest-ranked 30 of 59 sites.
- digicert.com1 tracking company
- dnsmadeeasy.com1 tracking company
- hostgator.com3 tracking companies
- docker.com3 tracking companies
- target.com5 tracking companies
- loc.gov1 tracking company
- box.com8 tracking companies
- prnewswire.com13 tracking companies
- usps.com24 tracking companies
- hbr.org12 tracking companies
Show 20 more sites
- worldbank.org9 tracking companies
- fidelity.com15 tracking companies
- corriere.it12 tracking companies
- hotpepper.jp13 tracking companies
- gismeteo.ru14 tracking companies
- gazzetta.it7 tracking companies
- canada.ca1 tracking company
- jalan.net27 tracking companies
- carsensor.net31 tracking companies
- indianrail.gov.in10 tracking companies
- chordtela.com34 tracking companies
- gartner.com3 tracking companies
- register.com2 tracking companies
- euronews.com12 tracking companies
- census.gov4 tracking companies
- trellix.com3 tracking companies
- purdue.edu19 tracking companies
- politico.com31 tracking companies
- amazonaws.com.cn2 tracking companies
- crowdstrike.com3 tracking companies
Related cookies
Other cookies from Adobe Advertising.
How to stop it
Declining non-essential cookies in a site's consent banner should stop everest_g_v2 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.