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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
Hey Emma! Wow great question. Not that I know of. (unless @Daeus knows something I don’t) That would be pretty cool though. I can look into it if Daeus doesn’t know. 🙂
@emma-flournoy I’ve never tried this, but if you go under the top forum categories (e.g. “general writing discussions”), there is this little blue text near the top of the page that says subscribe. If you click that, it may do what you’re talking about. Either that or it will subscribe you to every single post made under all of general writing discussion. If that happens though, you can just unsubscribe. If this doesn’t work, I don’t think there is a way to do what you want.
Thanks, @Rolena-Hatfield, @Daeus. I’ll try what you said, Daeus, and watch the e-mail to see what sort of notifications I get. If it works I’ll let you know.
‘kay, @Daeus, I think it’s working. The last two topics started in General Writing Discussions gave me a notification. In the spam folder; but that’s where my original notifications used to go, so maybe it’ll fix itself. 😛 Thanks.
oh, sweet. And you should be able to mark the sender as non-spam if you want to.
Really?! How? That’d be…nice. 😉
Um, honestly, I’ve never actually done it. I don’t get much spam and I don’t have a special spam folder. Adding the sender to your contacts might do it or if you mark it as not junk it might learn to accept the sender, but I’m really not sure how it’s done, just that it can be.
@Daeus Okay, I’ll see what I can do. Thanky much.