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_gac_
Contains information related to marketing campaigns of the user. These are shared with Google AdWords / Google Ads when the Google Ads and Google Analytics accounts are linked together.
90 days
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ID used to identify users and sessions
2 years after last activity
__utmt
Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests
10 minutes
__utmb
Used to distinguish new sessions and visits. This cookie is set when the GA.js javascript library is loaded and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to the Google Analytics server.
30 minutes after last activity
__utmc
Used only with old Urchin versions of Google Analytics and not with GA.js. Was used to distinguish between new sessions and visits at the end of a session.
End of session (browser)
__utmz
Contains information about the traffic source or campaign that directed user to the website. The cookie is set when the GA.js javascript is loaded and updated when data is sent to the Google Anaytics server
6 months after last activity
__utmv
Contains custom information set by the web developer via the _setCustomVar method in Google Analytics. This cookie is updated every time new data is sent to the Google Analytics server.
2 years after last activity
__utmx
Used to determine whether a user is included in an A / B or Multivariate test.
18 months
_ga
ID used to identify users
2 years
_gali
Used by Google Analytics to determine which links on a page are being clicked
30 seconds
_ga_
ID used to identify users
2 years
_gid
ID used to identify users for 24 hours after last activity
24 hours
_gat
Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager
1 minute
Um….YES!!!!!
Good, I’m glad I’m not the only one who is.🤣
Yep 😂
@acancello I’m going to try to write a little book and illustrate it for some of my friends for Christmas gifts. Do you ever make your own gifts that you give?
@janellebelovedpig
Yes, I love making home made presents, though I do sometimes buy them for certain people. Its so much fun to make gifts and if you wrote a book/illustrated it, I’m sure that they would love it!
@janellebelovedpig
Me: casually butts into the conversation
I’ve been into making fantasy maps lately. I paint the whole page with coffee to make it look brown and old, then I dump rice on the paper to generate the land form. Then I trace the rice with pencil or ink, add details, and then paint the water blue! It’s so much fun! I made one of those yesterday but instead of adding places and town names I designed a little map thing and put a quote on it for my friends birthday.
@savannah_grace2009
That sounds awesome! Ooh, makes me want to try it!
It is soooo much fun!!! It takes a while, maybe a day or two, because coffee takes a while to dry, but it’s well worth it!
@savannah_grace2009 Does instant coffee work for that?
@janellebelovedpig Yeah that’s what I use XD