What is the sp cookie?
Stores a server-side collector generated unique identifier for a user that is sent with all subsequent tracking event events. Can be used as a first party cookie is the collector is on the same domain as the site.
Our October 2026 scan found it on 17 sites (1% of the 2,450 we scanned), set before any consent.
- Purpose
- Analytics
- Belongs to
- Snowplow
- Set as
- First-party on 53% of sites, third-party on 47%
- Typical lifetime
- 12 months (vendor says: 1 year) — about what the vendor documents
Sites that set sp before consent
The highest-ranked 17 of 17 sites.
- tradingview.com2 tracking companies
- usps.com24 tracking companies
- focus.de1 tracking company
- nbcnews.com20 tracking companies
- elconfidencial.com6 tracking companies
- abc.net.au4 tracking companies
- litnet.com9 tracking companies
- nrk.no0 tracking companies
- chip.de1 tracking company
- today.com19 tracking companies
Show 7 more sites
- citi.com9 tracking companies
- bitly.com4 tracking companies
- yle.fi1 tracking company
- acorns.com20 tracking companies
- uiowa.edu11 tracking companies
- uxfeedback.ru3 tracking companies
- rusprofile.ru2 tracking companies
How to stop it
Declining non-essential cookies in a site's consent banner should stop sp 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.