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That is not how Google Analytics works. Its cookie (the Client ID) is a first-party cookie set on the domain of the website hosting it.

Google Analytics optionally integrates with both Google Ads and DoubleClick, and both of those integrations do a cookie-match against .google.com or .doubleclick.net cookies. But those integrations are optional and off by default.



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