What is the FPID cookie?
Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator.
Our October 2026 scan found it on 29 sites (1% of the 2,450 we scanned), set before any consent.
- Purpose
- Analytics
- Belongs to
- Google Analytics
- Set as
- First-party (under the site's own domain)
- Typical lifetime
- 13 months (vendor says: session)
Sites that set FPID before consent
The highest-ranked 29 of 29 sites.
- sagepub.com4 tracking companies
- bankofamerica.com3 tracking companies
- dmm.co.jp5 tracking companies
- marktplaats.nl4 tracking companies
- subito.it3 tracking companies
- beget.com5 tracking companies
- themeisle.com4 tracking companies
- crowdstrike.com3 tracking companies
- mixcloud.com5 tracking companies
- itv.com3 tracking companies
Show 19 more sites
- wetransfer.com4 tracking companies
- nsw.gov.au7 tracking companies
- bu.edu2 tracking companies
- ziggo.nl1 tracking company
- telenet.be2 tracking companies
- xero.com18 tracking companies
- vanguard.com17 tracking companies
- iinet.net.au4 tracking companies
- asos.com5 tracking companies
- greenpeace.org3 tracking companies
- straitstimes.com21 tracking companies
- livechat.com6 tracking companies
- dmm.com6 tracking companies
- pa.gov3 tracking companies
- cloud86.nl3 tracking companies
- bankrate.com9 tracking companies
- 20min.ch5 tracking companies
- homes.com17 tracking companies
- casasbahia.com.br8 tracking companies
Related cookies
Other cookies from Google Analytics.
- _ga700 sites
- _ga_*685 sites
- _gid185 sites
- _gat*108 sites
- _gat_gtag_*55 sites
How to stop it
Declining non-essential cookies in a site's consent banner should stop FPID 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.