What is the gdpr cookie?
Determines whether the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box. This ensures that the cookie consent box will not be presented again upon re-en try.
Our October 2026 scan found it on 5 sites (0% of the 2,450 we scanned), set before any consent.
- Purpose
- Functional
- Belongs to
- ID5
- Set as
- First-party on 80% of sites, third-party on 20%
- Typical lifetime
- 14 days (vendor says: 1 day) — longer than the vendor documents
Sites that set gdpr before consent
The highest-ranked 5 of 5 sites.
- intuit.com1 tracking company
- independent.co.uk10 tracking companies
- pikabu.ru6 tracking companies
- huffpost.com8 tracking companies
- buzzfeed.com16 tracking companies
Related cookies
Other cookies from ID5.
- id526 sites
How to stop it
Declining non-essential cookies in a site's consent banner should stop gdpr 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.