Cookies on The Register

Last updated: 9 August 2022.

INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your device if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred from a website to your browser/device, and from your browser/device back again to the website.

Our Website (www.theregister.com) uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website and allows us to improve our Website for example by keeping you signed in, understanding how you use our Website, measuring the numbers of people who read our articles and visit the Website, serving you advertising and showing you relevant content. By continuing to browse our Website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

We use the following cookies:

Essential/Functional cookies.
These cookies are either required for the proper operation of our Website. (for example, cookies that enable you remain signed into your account or make to comments) or make the Website easier to use (for example, cookies the recognise you when you return to our Website and remember your preferences or settings). This enables us to optimise your experience and personalise our content for you.

Analytical/Performance cookies.
They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Targeting/Advertising cookies.
These cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited, the links you have followed and information about your browser, device and your IP address. We will use this information to make our Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose including advertisers who may use online retargeting to show you ads based on what you read on our Website. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the tables below including (where applicable) information on how to opt-out of the cookies provided by our third party partners.

Essential/Functional Cookies

These cookies will be automatically deployed onto your computer when you use the Website.

Cookie Name	Title	Purpose	Activated	Duration
__cfduid	Cloudflare	Used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. It does not correspond to any userid in the web application, nor does the cookie store any personally identifiable information.This cookie is strictly necessary for site security operations and can't be turned off.	On visit	Up to 6 Years
sc	Session Count	Used for counting how many page impressions a user sees in the session - we use it to limit the effect of advertising on our readers.	On visit	Browser Session
c	Visited Channels	This tells us which sections of the site a user has visited and allows us to target them with an advert. e.g. read the Servers section, target with a Servers advert	On visit	1 month
show_popup	Account has not been updated for a year or more	On clicking on an article from one of our newsletters.	On visit	1 month
bucket	Bucket	Used for testing new/beta features on the site	On visit	Variable, up to 6 months
soc	Social	Tailoring content to users from social websites such as Twitter and Facebook.	On visit	Browser Session
s	Account Login	Required so we can enable account functions.	When you log in	1 year
EUck	EU Cookie Consent	Prevents display of the cookie preferences notification message.	On clicking the relevant button to set your cookie preferences.	10 years
voted_polls	Voted Polls	Required to manage the deployment of polls.	On poll vote	1 week
td	Traffic Driver	Tell us which promotional activities users have clicked on - e.g. if they clicked on an event promotion, or a podcast promotion we would know the promotion had driven X responses.	On click of promotion	1 year
sa	Seen Ads	Selectively records the ID of the ads you've seen and the surveys you've filled in, so that we can avoid bombarding you with the same message too frequently.	On visit	1 year
forum_sort	Per topic user sort order preference	For recording logged in users' forum preferences	On forum sort	Browser session
sl	Lite account login	Required to enable account identification from emails.	On clicking on link from one of our emails.	Browser session
ml	Mailing list login	Required to enable account functions from emails.	On clicking on link from one of our emails.	Browser session

 

Analytical/Performance cookies

Cookie Name	Title	Purpose	Activated	Duration
__utma __utmb __utmc __utmz	Google Analytics	Google Analytics uses cookies to define user sessions, uniqu users, and to provide a number of reporting features. These cookies are set or updated only to collect the data required for such reports, and are first-party. You can opt out here.	On visit	Up to 2 years

 

Targeting/Advertising cookies

Our Ad Server may set cookies from the following advertising partners. You can opt-out from these cookies on this Website using our Cookie Preferences Page, or from individual advertising partners using the links below.

Google	Advertising	Privacy URL
Aarki	Advertising	Privacy URL
Adacado	Advertising	Privacy URL
Adara Media	Advertising	Privacy URL
ADEX	Advertising	Privacy URL
Adform	Advertising	Privacy URL
Adikteev	Advertising	Privacy URL
AdLedge	Advertising	Privacy URL
Adloox	Advertising	Privacy URL
Adludio	Advertising	Privacy URL
AdMaxim	Advertising	Privacy URL
Admedo	Advertising	Privacy URL
Admetrics	Advertising	Privacy URL
Adobe Advertising Cloud	Advertising	Privacy URL
AdTriba	Advertising	Privacy URL
advanced STORE GmbH	Advertising	Privacy URL
Adventori	Advertising	Privacy URL
advolution.control	Advertising	Privacy URL
affilinet	Advertising	Privacy URL
Akamai	Advertising	Privacy URL
Amazon	Advertising	Privacy URL
Amobee	Advertising	Privacy URL
Analights	Advertising	Privacy URL
AppLovin Corp.	Advertising	Privacy URL
AppNexus (Xandr) Inc	Advertising	Privacy URL
Arrivalist	Advertising	Privacy URL
AudienceProject	Advertising	Privacy URL
Aunica	Advertising	Privacy URL
Avocet	Advertising	Privacy URL
Bannerflow	Advertising	Privacy URL
Batch Media	Advertising	Privacy URL
BDSK Handels GmbH & Co. KG	Advertising	Privacy URL
Beeswax	Advertising	Privacy URL
Betgenius	Advertising	Privacy URL
Blismedia	Advertising	Privacy URL
Bombora	Advertising	Privacy URL
Booking.com	Advertising	Privacy URL
C3 Metrics	Advertising	Privacy URL
Cablato	Advertising	Privacy URL
Celtra	Advertising	Privacy URL
Centro	Advertising	Privacy URL
Cint	Advertising	Privacy URL
Clinch	Advertising	Privacy URL
Cloud Technologies	Advertising	Privacy URL
Cloudflare	Advertising	Privacy URL
Commanders Act	Advertising	Privacy URL
comScore	Advertising	Privacy URL
Crimtan	Advertising	Privacy URL
Criteo	Advertising	Privacy URL
CUBED	Advertising	Privacy URL
DataXu	Advertising	Privacy URL
Demandbase	Advertising	Privacy URL
DENTSU	Advertising	Privacy URL
Dentsu Aegis Network	Advertising	Privacy URL
Digiseg	Advertising	Privacy URL
DMA Institute	Advertising	Privacy URL
DoubleVerify	Advertising	Privacy URL
Dstillery	Advertising	Privacy URL
Dynata	Advertising	Privacy URL
EASYmedia	Advertising	Privacy URL
eBay	Advertising	Privacy URL
ebuilders	Advertising	Privacy URL
Effinity	Advertising	Privacy URL
emetriq	Advertising	Privacy URL
Ensighten	Advertising	Privacy URL
Epsilon	Advertising	Privacy URL
Essens	Advertising	Privacy URL
Evidon	Advertising	Privacy URL
Exactag	Advertising	Privacy URL
Exponential	Advertising	Privacy URL
Facebook	Advertising	Privacy URL
Flashtalking	Advertising	Privacy URL
Fractional Media	Advertising	Privacy URL
FUSIO BY S4M	Advertising	Privacy URL
Gemius	Advertising	Privacy URL
GfK	Advertising	Privacy URL
GP One	Advertising	Privacy URL
GroupM	Advertising	Privacy URL
gskinner	Advertising	Privacy URL
Haensel AMS	Advertising	Privacy URL
Havas Media France - DBi	Advertising	Privacy URL
hurra.com	Advertising	Privacy URL
IBM	Advertising	Privacy URL
Ignition One	Advertising	Privacy URL
Impact	Advertising	Privacy URL
Improve Digital	Advertising	Privacy URL
Index Exchange	Advertising	Privacy URL
Infectious Media	Advertising	Privacy URL
Innovid	Advertising	Privacy URL
Integral Ad Science	Advertising	Privacy URL
intelliAd	Advertising	Privacy URL
IPONWEB	Advertising	Privacy URL
Jivox	Advertising	Privacy URL
Kantar	Advertising	Privacy URL
Kochava	Advertising	Privacy URL
LifeStreet	Advertising	Privacy URL
Liftoff	Advertising	Privacy URL
LiveRamp	Advertising	Privacy URL
Localsensor	Advertising	Privacy URL
LoopMe	Advertising	Privacy URL
Lotame	Advertising	Privacy URL
Macromill group	Advertising	Privacy URL
MainADV	Advertising	Privacy URL
Manage.com	Advertising	Privacy URL
Marketing Science Consulting Group, Inc.	Advertising	Privacy URL
MediaMath	Advertising	Privacy URL
Meetrics	Advertising	Privacy URL
MindTake Research	Advertising	Privacy URL
Mobitrans	Advertising	Privacy URL
Mobpro	Advertising	Privacy URL
Moloco Ads	Advertising	Privacy URL
MSI-ACI	Advertising	Privacy URL
Nano Interactive	Advertising	Privacy URL
Navegg	Advertising	Privacy URL
Neodata Group	Advertising	Privacy URL
NEORY GmbH	Advertising	Privacy URL
Netflix	Advertising	Privacy URL
Netquest	Advertising	Privacy URL
Neural.ONE	Advertising	Privacy URL
Neustar	Advertising	Privacy URL
NextRoll, Inc.	Advertising	Privacy URL
Nielsen	Advertising	Privacy URL
numberly	Advertising	Privacy URL
Objective Partners	Advertising	Privacy URL
Omnicom Media Group	Advertising	Privacy URL
On Device Research	Advertising	Privacy URL
OneTag	Advertising	Privacy URL
OpenX Technologies	Advertising	Privacy URL
Optomaton	Advertising	Privacy URL
Oracle Data Cloud	Advertising	Privacy URL
OTTO	Advertising	Privacy URL
PERMODO	Advertising	Privacy URL
Pixalate	Advertising	Privacy URL
Platform161	Advertising	Privacy URL
Primis	Advertising	Privacy URL
Protected Media	Advertising	Privacy URL
Publicis Media	Advertising	Privacy URL
PubMatic	Advertising	Privacy URL
PulsePoint	Advertising	Privacy URL
Quantcast	Advertising	Privacy URL
Rackspace	Advertising	Privacy URL
Rakuten Marketing	Advertising	Privacy URL
Relay42	Advertising	Privacy URL
Remerge	Advertising	Privacy URL
Resolution Media	Advertising	Privacy URL
Resonate	Advertising	Privacy URL
RevJet	Advertising	Privacy URL
Roq.ad	Advertising	Privacy URL
RTB House	Advertising	Privacy URL
Rubicon Project	Advertising	Privacy URL
Salesforce DMP	Advertising	Privacy URL
Scenestealer	Advertising	Privacy URL
Scoota	Advertising	Privacy URL
Seenthis	Advertising	Privacy URL
Semasio GmbH	Advertising	Privacy URL
SFR	Advertising	Privacy URL
Sift Media	Advertising	Privacy URL
Simpli.fi	Advertising	Privacy URL
Sizmek	Advertising	Privacy URL
Smaato	Advertising	Privacy URL
Smadex	Advertising	Privacy URL
Smart	Advertising	Privacy URL
Smartology	Advertising	Privacy URL
Sojern	Advertising	Privacy URL
Solocal	Advertising	Privacy URL
Sovrn	Advertising	Privacy URL
Spotad	Advertising	Privacy URL
SpotX	Advertising	Privacy URL
STRÖER SSP GmbH	Advertising	Privacy URL
TabMo	Advertising	Privacy URL
Taboola	Advertising	Privacy URL
TACTIC™ Real-Time Marketing	Advertising	Privacy URL
Teads	Advertising	Privacy URL
TEEMO	Advertising	Privacy URL
The Trade Desk	Advertising	Privacy URL
Tradedoubler AB	Advertising	Privacy URL
travel audience – An Amadeus Company	Advertising	Privacy URL
Travel Data Collective	Advertising	Privacy URL
TreSensa	Advertising	Privacy URL
TripleLift	Advertising	Privacy URL
TruEffect	Advertising	Privacy URL
TrustArc	Advertising	Privacy URL
UnrulyX	Advertising	Privacy URL
usemax (Emego GmbH)	Advertising	Privacy URL
Verizon Media	Advertising	Privacy URL
Verve Group	Advertising	Privacy URL
Videology	Advertising	Privacy URL
Vimeo	Advertising	Privacy URL
Virtual Minds	Advertising	Privacy URL
Vodafone GmbH	Advertising	Privacy URL
Waystack	Advertising	Privacy URL
Weborama	Advertising	Privacy URL
White Ops	Advertising	Privacy URL
Widespace	Advertising	Privacy URL
Wizaly	Advertising	Privacy URL
ZMS	Advertising	Privacy URL

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