Cara Baestlein

Former Product Manager at Snowplow now Product-led Growth at Aiven

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Cookie	Duration	Description
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driftt_aid	2 years	The driftt_aid cookie is an anonymous identifier token set by Drift.com for tracking purposes and helps to tie the visitor onto the website. The cookie also allows Drift to remember the information provided by the site visitor, through the chat on successive site visits.
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MUID	1 year 24 days	Bing sets this cookie to recognize unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations.
personalization_id	2 years	Twitter sets this cookie to integrate and share features for social media and also store information about how the user uses the website, for tracking and targeting.
sp	1 year	This cookie is set by the host c.jabmo.app. This cookie is used to serve the content based on user interest and improve content creation.
test_cookie	15 minutes	The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user's browser supports cookies.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	5 months 27 days	A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface.
YSC	session	YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages.
yt-remote-connected-devices	never	YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video.
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Others

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Cookie	Duration	Description
_clck	1 year	No description
_clsk	1 day	No description
_hjSession_1198481	30 minutes	No description
_hjSessionUser_1198481	1 year	No description
_rdt_uuid	3 months	No description available.
_sp_id.7f3f	2 years	No description
_sp_ses.7f3f	30 minutes	No description
_sp5_id.e3cb	2 years	No description available.
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_sp6_id.e3cb	2 years	No description available.
_sp6_ses.e3cb	30 minutes	No description available.
AnalyticsSyncHistory	1 month	No description
cookies.js_dtest	session	No description
drift_aid	2 years	No description
drift_campaign_refresh	30 minutes	No description available.
li_gc	2 years	No description
lpv571483	30 minutes	No description
muc_ads	2 years	No description
SM	session	No description available.
visitor_id571483	10 years	No description
visitor_id571483-hash	10 years	No description

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