First-id integrates natively into Edgee: 3 clicks, 10 minutes to regain full control of your first-party data

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First-id, France’s leading solution for deterministic, cookieless identification, announces its native integration within Edgee — the Edgee Computing platform that combines a next-generation tag manager and CDN. This strategic partnership radically simplifies the deployment of identity solutions and enables publishers, e-commerce players, and agencies to regain full control of their first-party data, with full compliance and a direct impact on the performance of their marketing activations.

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The context: a market undergoing profound transformation

For several years, the digital ecosystem has been facing major structural changes:

The end of third-party cookies: more than 50% of French internet users are already non-addressable via third-party cookies (Safari, Firefox), with Chrome following in 2025 (IAB/SRI).
Browser restrictions (ITP, ETP): Safari limits cookie lifespan to 7 days, sometimes to just 24 hours, drastically reducing the reliability of identifiers.
Rise of ad blockers: around 30% of French users now rely on an ad blocker (Statista 2024), making a substantial share of audiences invisible to brands.
Impact on site performance: traditional tracking scripts slow down Core Web Vitals, harm SEO, and increase bounce rates.

In this environment, server-side activation has emerged as an essential solution, yet it is still widely perceived as complex, slow to implement, and costly.

The First-id x Edgee solution: radical simplicity

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✅ Activation in just 3 clicks and 10 minutes, directly from the Edgee interface
No developers needed: the First-id SDK is automatically injected by Edgee via edge computing
✅ Multiple configuration modes depending on your consent policy
✅ 100% first-party integration, bypassing ad blockers and the limitations imposed by Safari or Brave

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In practical terms, a publisher or advertiser can activate First-id across all their domains within minutes, with a negligible integration cost.

How does it work in practice?

When a user gives consent, First-id assigns them a unique identifier.

  • A server-side redirect is used to either create a new identifier or retrieve an existing one from the First-id network.
  • The Edgee CDN then places a first-party cookie on the client’s site containing the value of this identifier.
  • Result: the user is recognized in a persistent, cross-domain and cross-device way, all within a compliant framework fully controlled by the client.
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Concrete benefits

FOr Publishers
  • Maximize ad monetization through broader audience coverage.
  • Improve programmatic performance on cookieless inventory that is currently non-addressable.
for e-commerce players
  • Enhance targeting precision and conversion measurement.
  • Access stable, persistent user identification.
for agencies
  • Simplify data activation orchestration and control frequency capping
  • Provide clients with stronger interoperability across their tech stack.

A technological synergy serving the entire ecosystem

This integration highlights the strong complementarity between:

  • Edgee, which simplifies and secures the deployment of technologies directly at the CDN level.
  • First-id, which provides a persistent, interoperable and sovereign identifier — essential for media activation, data collaboration and measurement.


For clients, this translates into:

Accelerated time-to-market

Clients benefit from a faster time-to-market.

Enhanced interoperability

Improved interoperability with AdTech and MarTech technologies.

Fast and measurable ROI

Clients achieve a rapid and measurable return on investment.

About Edgee
Edgee is an Edge Computing platform that combines a CDN and a tag manager, enabling companies to deploy their digital technologies simply and efficiently while optimizing performance, security and compliance.

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