Hi Team,
I have been reading a lot of stuff on understanding how visitor identification happens in Experience Cloud solutions - specifically Adobe Analytics. I am clear with the back end request calls between ID service and Data Collection server for creating Marketing cloud visitor ID within or across domain. However, while going through Why the New Adobe Marketing Cloud ID Service Should be on Your Radar | Adobe Blog I noticed the importance of having s_vi cookie.
"In the new method for visitor identification, the JavaScript code checks for the AMCV cookie on the browser before sending anything to the Adobe data center. If it isn’t present, a request is sent to the Audience Manager server (demdex) to get an MID value for your specific Marketing Cloud organization that is passed into the AMCV cookie. Next, the cookie is checked for an AID and if it isn’t present, the browser will check for the AID value in the legacy s_vi cookie. If the s_vi cookie isn’t set, then the MID value will be used by Adobe Analytics for visitor identification."
My doubt is what is the significance of having s_vi cookie if we already have Marketing Cloud Visitor Id to identify unique visitors? Moreover, how Analytics ID (AID) fits in this whole visitor identification and why s_vi cookie is the one which is checked for the first and then AMCV cookie (highlighted in the texts above)? I thought AMCV cookie was enough for visitor identification both within domain and cross domain.
Any leads will be highly appreciated!
Many Thanks,
-Jaya
