OEB Monthly review: January 2026

The Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (OEB) released its monthly review for January 2026. The review includes information about cookies used on their website for various purposes.

Cookies include:

• NID6 months: Set by Google for advertising purposes, 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: Stores user preferences for embedded YouTube videos, set to ‘never’.
• yt-remote-device-id: Stores user preferences for embedded YouTube videos, set to ‘never’.
• yt.innertube::nextId: Registers a unique ID to store data on viewed YouTube videos.
• yt.innertube::requests: Registers a unique ID to store data on viewed YouTube videos.
• _GRECAPTCHA 5 months 27 days: Set by Google reCAPTCHA to identify bots and protect against spam.
• Cookie law consent cookies: Various cookies record user consent for categories including advertisement, analytics, functional, necessary, other, and performance, with durations ranging from 7 days to 1 year.
• PHPSESSID 7 days: Stores and manages user session ID for PHP applications.
• viewed_cookie_policy 11 months: Records whether the user has consented to cookie use.

More details are available on the official OEB website.