What is the ts cookie?
This cookie is generally provided by PayPal and supports payment services on the website.
Our October 2026 scan found it on 26 sites (1% of the 2,450 we scanned), set before any consent.
- Purpose
- Functional
- Belongs to
- PayPal
- Set as
- First-party on 8% of sites, third-party on 92%
- Typical lifetime
- 12 months (vendor says: 3 years) — shorter than the vendor documents
Sites that set ts before consent
The highest-ranked 26 of 26 sites.
- paypal.com1 tracking company
- alibaba.com7 tracking companies
- dell.com12 tracking companies
- dailymotion.com2 tracking companies
- olx.com.br10 tracking companies
- dmm.co.jp5 tracking companies
- elconfidencial.com6 tracking companies
- carsensor.net31 tracking companies
- immobiliare.it6 tracking companies
- chordtela.com34 tracking companies
Show 16 more sites
- az24.vn22 tracking companies
- scmp.com17 tracking companies
- santander.com.br7 tracking companies
- tokopedia.com8 tracking companies
- olx.ua9 tracking companies
- venmo.com0 tracking companies
- hepsiburada.com6 tracking companies
- poshmark.com9 tracking companies
- netshoes.com.br15 tracking companies
- doxygen.org2 tracking companies
- ana.co.jp16 tracking companies
- mercadopago.com8 tracking companies
- atlasobscura.com28 tracking companies
- joinhoney.com1 tracking company
- eleconomista.es24 tracking companies
- homes.com17 tracking companies
Related cookies
Other cookies from PayPal.
- ts_c5 sites
- enforce_policy4 sites
- l7_az4 sites
- nsid4 sites
- tsrce4 sites
How to stop it
Declining non-essential cookies in a site's consent banner should stop ts 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.