What is the s_cc cookie?
Used to determine if browser of user accepts cookies or not.
Our October 2026 scan found it on 74 sites (3% of the 2,450 we scanned), set before any consent.
- Purpose
- Analytics
- Belongs to
- Adobe Analytics
- Set as
- First-party (under the site's own domain)
- Typical lifetime
- Session (vendor says: End of session (browser))
Sites that set s_cc before consent
The highest-ranked 30 of 74 sites.
- apple.com0 tracking companies
- digicert.com1 tracking company
- dnsmadeeasy.com1 tracking company
- avast.com5 tracking companies
- dell.com12 tracking companies
- hostgator.com3 tracking companies
- foxnews.com3 tracking companies
- mysql.com1 tracking company
- loc.gov1 tracking company
- elpais.com7 tracking companies
Show 20 more sites
- bild.de0 tracking companies
- box.com8 tracking companies
- welt.de0 tracking companies
- hbr.org12 tracking companies
- nbcnews.com20 tracking companies
- worldbank.org9 tracking companies
- corriere.it12 tracking companies
- as.com7 tracking companies
- tabelog.com6 tracking companies
- hotpepper.jp13 tracking companies
- gazzetta.it7 tracking companies
- canada.ca1 tracking company
- carsensor.net31 tracking companies
- avira.com5 tracking companies
- register.com2 tracking companies
- euronews.com12 tracking companies
- ihg.com3 tracking companies
- census.gov4 tracking companies
- trellix.com3 tracking companies
- politico.com31 tracking companies
Related cookies
Other cookies from Adobe Analytics.
- AMCV_*111 sites
- demdex108 sites
- AMCVS_*84 sites
- dpm69 sites
- everest_g_v259 sites
How to stop it
Declining non-essential cookies in a site's consent banner should stop s_cc 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.