What is the li_gc cookie?
Used to store guest consent to the use of cookies for non-essential purposes.
Our October 2026 scan found it on 136 sites (6% of the 2,450 we scanned), set before any consent.
- Purpose
- Functional
- Belongs to
- Set as
- First-party on 1% of sites, third-party on 99%
- Typical lifetime
- 6 months (vendor says: 2 years) — shorter than the vendor documents
Sites that set li_gc before consent
The highest-ranked 30 of 136 sites.
- linkedin.com0 tracking companies
- webex.com4 tracking companies
- ipify.org4 tracking companies
- amplitude.com5 tracking companies
- mediatek.com7 tracking companies
- trendmicro.com8 tracking companies
- techcrunch.com38 tracking companies
- optimizely.com4 tracking companies
- oxylabs.io11 tracking companies
- prnewswire.com13 tracking companies
Show 20 more sites
- usps.com24 tracking companies
- hbr.org12 tracking companies
- worldbank.org9 tracking companies
- seedtag.com4 tracking companies
- washington.edu12 tracking companies
- auvik.com7 tracking companies
- tailscale.com7 tracking companies
- bidmachine.io13 tracking companies
- instructure.com17 tracking companies
- terra.com.br23 tracking companies
- apa.org4 tracking companies
- clarin.com13 tracking companies
- plos.org3 tracking companies
- netkeiba.com20 tracking companies
- aternos.org19 tracking companies
- businesswire.com6 tracking companies
- twilio.com9 tracking companies
- therapservices.net5 tracking companies
- acm.org4 tracking companies
- adroll.com11 tracking companies
Related cookies
Other cookies from LinkedIn.
How to stop it
Declining non-essential cookies in a site's consent banner should stop li_gc 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.