The Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (OEB) released its monthly review for August and September 2026. The review includes information on cookies used on the OEB website and their purposes.
Cookies include:
- NID6 months: Set by Google for advertising, to limit ad frequency, mute unwanted ads, and measure ad effectiveness.
- VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE 5 months 27 days: Set by YouTube to measure bandwidth and determine whether the user receives the new or old player interface.
- YSC session: Set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos.
- yt-remote-connected-devices: Set by YouTube to store video preferences for embedded videos.
- yt-remote-device-id: Set by YouTube to store user video preferences.
- yt.innertube::nextId: Set by YouTube to register a unique ID for videos viewed.
- yt.innertube::requests: Set by YouTube to store data on viewed videos.
- _GRECAPTCHA 5 months 27 days: Set by Google reCAPTCHA to identify bots and protect against spam.
- Cookie law consent cookies: Various cookies set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin to record user consent for categories including advertisement, analytics, functional, necessary, others, and performance, with durations from 11 months to 1 year.
- PHPSESSID 7 days: Used to store and identify user session ID for website session management.
- viewed_cookie_policy 11 months: Stores whether the user has consented to cookies.
More details are available in the full review on the official OEB website.
