What is a Cookie Identifier?

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A cookie identifier is a cookie that helps identify a consumer.

You can follow users from site to site by merging various cookie identifiers into a profile.

They are better known as tracking cookie.

Example

For a full example, see the tracking cookie page: How does a tracking cookie work? A step by step example





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