Purpose

Audience Manager sets this cookie to assign a unique ID to a site visitor. The demdex cookie helps Audience Manger perform basic functions, such as visitor identification, ID synchronization, segmentation, modeling, reporting, and so on.

Content

The demdex cookie contains a Unique User ID (UUID) as shown in the example below:

06151304227769720433039235178204449977

See also, Index of IDs in Audience Manager .

Other Attributes

• Lifetime: The demdex cookie has a time-to-live (TTL) interval of 180-days. The TTL is reset to 180-days upon each user interaction with a partner website. The cookie expires if a user does not come back to your site within the TTL interval.
• Opt-out: Audience Manager resets the cookie with a Do Not Adobe Target string if a user opts-out of data collection. In this case, the cookie TTL is set as 10 years.

Purpose

Audience Manager sets this cookie to record the last time it made a data synchronization call.

Content

The dextp cookie contains a data provider name or ID and a UNIX UTC timestamp formatted as pipe-delimited strings. In the examples, italics represents a variable placeholder.

• Old style: data provider name here -1490307822097| data provider name here -1490307822038
• New style: 21-1-1490307821616|544-1-1490307821793|3-1-1490307821852|420-1-1490307822038|

See also, the dextp data syntax section below.

Other Attributes

• Lifetime: The dextp cookie has a time-to-live (TTL) interval of 180-days.
• Opt-out: Audience Manager resets the cookie with a Do Not Adobe Target string if a user opts-out of data collection. In this case, the cookie TTL is set as 10 years.

First or Second

The position of the data provider name or ID varies depending on if the cookie uses the new or old style formatting.

Old style formatting:

• Syntax: data provider name - UNIX UTC timestamp
• Example: dataProvider1 - 1490307822038

The old style cookie identifies the data provider with a readable name.

New style formatting:

• Syntax: data provider ID - 1|2 - UNIX UTC timestamp
• Example: 123345 - 1 - 1490307822038

The new style cookie:

• Replaces the readable data provider name with a numeric ID.
• Identifies the call type with ID 1 or ID 2. ID 1 represents an ID synchronization call. ID 2 represents a deprecated call that is no longer used. You should not see many (or any) dextp cookies with ID 2.

Last

The last position contains a UNIX UTC timestamp.

Purpose

Audience Manager sets this cookie when there's an error sending data to a destination .

Content

The DST cookie contains sets of destination IDs and UNIX time-stamps formatted as pipe-delimited strings. In the examples, italics represents a variable placeholder.

• Syntax: destination ID - UNIX UTC timestamp
• Example: 067797-1490349684|1010788-1490349692|1067797-1490349692

Other Attributes

• Lifetime: The dst cookie has a time-to-live (TTL) interval of 180-days.
• Opt-out: Audience Manager resets the cookie with a Do Not Adobe Target string if a user opts-out of data collection.