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Google Ads

Google's advertising and conversion tracking network.

Owned by

Google LLC

Category

Advertising

Consent

Needs consent

This sets identifiers that follow visitors, so under GDPR and ePrivacy it needs consent before it loads.

Cookies it sets

Names, purpose and lifetime as we publish them in generated cookie policies.

CookiePurposeDuration
_gcl_awStores Google Click ID (gclid) when a user arrives from a Google Ad. Used for conversion tracking and attribution.90 days
_gcl_dcStores DoubleClick click ID for cross-network conversion attribution.90 days
_gcl_gbStores Google Ads click ID for Enhanced Conversions, linking on-site actions to ad clicks.90 days

Domains we watch for

The scanner flags this tracker when a page requests any of these.

googleadservices.comgooglesyndication.comdoubleclick.netgoogleads.g.doubleclick.net

Built into Consentify

This one is a ready-made integration. Paste your ID into the dashboard and Consentify keeps it blocked until the visitor agrees, then loads it and writes it into your cookie policy for you.

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