Provider
GoogleSee all Google cookies →Google account session cookie. On third-party sites (via YouTube, Maps, or reCAPTCHA embeds) it enables Google to identify a signed-in visitor across the web — a tracking-capable identifier that requires consent in EU/UK contexts.
2 years
Google LLC
SID is a advertising cookie. Under Art. 5(3) ePrivacy Directive and the GDPR, it must not be set before the visitor has given prior, informed, freely-given consent.
If your scanner finds SID on a page before the visitor interacts with your consent banner, that's a violation — the cookie loaded without a legal basis.
Fix: gate the script that sets this cookie behind your CMP, so it only fires after the relevant consent category is accepted.
Run a free CookieSentry scan to find every cookie set before consent — including SID — and get a downloadable evidence PDF.
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