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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
__utma
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
Yeah…
Wow that IS weird….XD
But you get to do cool adult stuff now!!!! 😂😁🤣
Like…paying taxes? (actually I haven’t had to do that yet, but it’s only a matter of time *shudders*)
I guess I can now actually *own* things, so that’s nice.
Oh yeah I forgot about those 😬😬😬
It’s crazy how I’ll graduate too in three years, it’s coming really fast!!!!
Yep, Bridget will also graduate in three years. But to me, three years from now seems like a long time, because I’ll be almost done with college by then!
Wow!!!! That’s soooo weird to think about…I guess that’s how I’ll feel because I have two siblings and we’re three and six years apart…
What are you doing for college?
I still don’t know what I’m doing with my life 😭😭
I think that’s pretty normal. I’m still not absolutely certain.
I will be double majoring in computer science and video game design. Pretty odd degree, I know. My plan is basically that being a programmer will help me get a job pretty easily early on and be a good skill to fall back on. Designing video games is something I’ve always wanted to do, so I could definitely be happy with that as my fulltime job eventually. Writing is definitely something that I would like to do as a job, but I figured, it’s a lot easier to get a job for programming than get started as a writer, and writing is something I don’t necessarily need to go to college to get good at. So, I definitely plan to keep writing on the side.
So, yeah, that’s what I’ll be doing the next few years.
That’s funny actually, I am three years older than Bridget, and six years older than our younger brother as well!