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What is the ID cookie?

This cookie is used for targeting, analyzing and optimisation of ad campaigns in DoubleClick/Google Marketing Suite.

Our October 2026 scan found it on 9 sites (0% of the 2,450 we scanned), set before any consent.

Purpose
Advertising
Belongs to
DoubleClick/Google Marketing
Set as
First-party on 11% of sites, third-party on 89%
Typical lifetime
12 months (vendor says: 2 months) — longer than the vendor documents

Sites that set ID before consent

The highest-ranked 9 of 9 sites.

Related cookies

Other cookies from DoubleClick/Google Marketing.

How to stop it

Declining non-essential cookies in a site's consent banner should stop ID 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).

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