Last Updated: February 10, 2025
Cookies
Ezoic's general cookie policies and usage outlined below.
NecessaryPreferencesStatisticsMarketing
| Cookie Name | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Necessary — required for the website to function properly | ||
| ez_pub_site | Necessary | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to only show the site with Ezoic's features enabled. |
| ez_rdr | Necessary | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track redirects. |
| ez_rdr_count | Necessary | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track redirects. |
| ezCMPCookieConsent | Necessary | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track when a user consents to cookies. |
| cookieconsent_dismissed | Necessary | Used to track closure of a cookie consent dialog. |
| __cfduid | Necessary | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. |
| __utmt_e | Necessary | Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server. |
| __utmt_f | Necessary | Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server. |
| PHPSESSID | Necessary | A unique identifier used to preserve states across pages. |
| wordpress_test_cookie | Necessary | WordPress sets this cookie when you navigate to the login page. The cookie is used to check whether your web browser is set to allow, or reject cookies. |
| __utmt | Necessary | Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server. |
| cf_ob_info | Necessary | Used by Content Delivery Network, Cloudflare, to protect against fraud and speed up web delivery. |
| cf_use_ob | Necessary | Used by Content Delivery Network, Cloudflare, to protect against fraud and speed up web delivery. |
| OSTSESSION | Necessary | Session Identifier |
| OSTSESSID | Necessary | Session Identifier |
| Preferences — enable the website to remember your settings and choices | ||
| ez_view_original_only | Preferences | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to show the original site without Ezoic's features. |
| speed_no_process | Preferences | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to turn off site speed features for this user. |
| sitespeed_preview | Preferences | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to allow this user to preview certain site speed features. |
| ez_ad_position_version | Preferences | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to determine if they use the Ad Tester product for this user; used by the Ad Tester extension. |
| ez_ad_position_version | Preferences | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to determine if they use the Ad Tester product for this user; used by the Ad Tester extension. |
| ezpicker_showall | Preferences | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to tell the ezpicker app to show all placeholders. |
| ezpicker_showall | Preferences | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to tell the ezpicker app to show all placeholders. |
| ezpicker_nocache | Preferences | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to tell the ezpicker app to run without using the cache. |
| ezpicker_nocache | Preferences | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to tell the ezpicker app to run without using the cache. |
| ezpicker | Preferences | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to turn on ezpicker. |
| ezpicker | Preferences | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to turn on ezpicker. |
| ez_view_optimized_only | Preferences | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to show the original site without Ezoic's features. |
| _atuvc | Preferences | Used by the social sharing widget, AddThis, to enable visitors to share content on social networks. |
| _atssc | Preferences | Used to manage an account with social sharing widget AddThis. |
| GED_PLAYLIST_ACTIVITY | Preferences | Used to track activity related to embedded YouTube videos. |
| SL_wptGlobTipTmp | Preferences | Sets a preference for displaying tooltip. |
| SL_GWPT_Show_Hide_tmp | Preferences | Sets a preference for displaying tooltip. |
| ez_view_optimized_only | Preferences | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to show the optimized site with Ezoic's features. |
| _atuvs | Preferences | Used to show you an updated share count for an article, if you yourself share it and return to page later, but before the sharing cache was updated. No info from this cookie is sent back to AddThis. It is created and used only on the client. |
| Statistics — help understand how visitors interact with the website | ||
| ezCMPCCS | Statistics | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track when a user consents to statistics cookies. |
| ezosuigeneris | Statistics | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to uniquely identify you across different websites on the internet so your experience can be customized. |
| ezds | Statistics | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to record the pixel size of your screen to help personalize your experience and ensure content fits. |
| AMP_ECID_EZOIC | Statistics | Used by personalization and analytics company Ezoic for statistics on Accelerated Mobile Pages. |
| ez_recommended_pages | Statistics | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track users visiting from the recommended pages widget. |
| ezohw | Statistics | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to store the pixel size of your browser to help personalize your experience and ensure content fits. |
| ezepvv | Statistics | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track which pages this user has viewed. |
| ezepv | Statistics | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track which pages this user has viewed. |
| ezosuigeneris | Statistics | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to uniquely identify you across different websites on the internet so your experience can be customized. |
| ezosuigeneris | Statistics | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to uniquely identify you across different websites on the internet so your experience can be customized. |
| ezouspva | Statistics | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track how many pages a user has visited all time. |
| ezouspva | Statistics | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track how many pages a user has visited all time. |
| ezouspvv | Statistics | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track how many pages a user has visited. |
| ezouspvh | Statistics | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to track how many pages a user has visited since their last visit. |
| _ga | Statistics | Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics. |
| __utma | Statistics | Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics. |
| __utmz | Statistics | Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used. Used by Google Analytics. |
| __utmt | Statistics | Registers a timestamp with the exact time when the user leaves the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit. |
| _gid | Statistics | Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics. |
| _qca | Statistics | Collects anonymous data on the user's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of generating reports for optimising the website content. |
| __utmb | Statistics | Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user accessed the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit. |
| _gat | Statistics | Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics. |
| Marketing — used to track visitors across websites for advertising purposes | ||
| ezdg | Marketing | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to store demographic information like age and gender. |
| ezdg | Marketing | Used by the analytics and personalization company, Ezoic, to store demographic information like age and gender. |
| _gads | Marketing | Used to register what ads have been displayed to the user. |
| _unam | Marketing | Used by social sharing widget ShareThis to track your web browsing behavior. |
| cto_lwid | Marketing | Used by the ad network, Criteo. |
| cto_idcpy | Marketing | Used by the ad network, Criteo. |
| _sm_au | Marketing | Used by Google Adwords to retarget ads to users. |
| bfp_sn_rf_8b2087b102c9e3e5ffed1c1478ed8b78 | Marketing | Used to track your browsing activity across multiple websites. |
| _ym_uid | Marketing | Used by Ad Company Yandex Metrica to identify users. |