What is the IR_gbd cookie?
A base-domain cookie set by Impact (formerly Impact Radius) as part of the tracking tag it uses for affiliate and partnership-marketing attribution.
Our October 2026 scan found it on 12 sites (0% of the 2,450 we scanned), set before any consent.
- Purpose
- Advertising
- Belongs to
- Impact
- Set as
- First-party (under the site's own domain)
- Typical lifetime
- Session
Sites that set IR_gbd before consent
The highest-ranked 12 of 12 sites.
- hostgator.com3 tracking companies
- gettyimages.com2 tracking companies
- audible.com25 tracking companies
- suno.com9 tracking companies
- simplisafe.com31 tracking companies
- moz.com11 tracking companies
- hootsuite.com7 tracking companies
- smartsheet.com6 tracking companies
- acorns.com20 tracking companies
- dish.com18 tracking companies
How to stop it
Declining non-essential cookies in a site's consent banner should stop IR_gbd 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 written by CookieTosser, for a cookie the Open Cookie Database doesn't cover.
Understanding this page
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- First-party vs third-party cookies (and why "first-party" still tracks you)
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- How to block or limit trackers
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