What is the pa_privacy cookie?
Stores the visitor's privacy-mode choice for AT Internet's Piano Analytics tracking.
Our October 2026 scan found it on 15 sites (1% of the 2,450 we scanned), set before any consent.
- Purpose
- Necessary
- Belongs to
- AT Internet (Piano)
- Set as
- First-party (under the site's own domain)
- Typical lifetime
- 13 months
- Where it's common
- 33% of the sites that set it use a .fr domain.
Sites that set pa_privacy before consent
The highest-ranked 15 of 15 sites.
- unesco.org2 tracking companies
- lemonde.fr2 tracking companies
- bfmtv.com2 tracking companies
- leboncoin.fr3 tracking companies
- meteofrance.com5 tracking companies
- dw.com0 tracking companies
- france24.com0 tracking companies
- tagesschau.de0 tracking companies
- ndr.de0 tracking companies
- wdr.de0 tracking companies
Show 5 more sites
- rfi.fr0 tracking companies
- swr.de2 tracking companies
- mdr.de0 tracking companies
- 20minutes.fr1 tracking company
- laposte.fr2 tracking companies
Related cookies
Other cookies from AT Internet (Piano).
How to stop it
Declining non-essential cookies in a site's consent banner should stop optional cookies, though a necessary cookie like this one may still be set. 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
- 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.