Ad Lightning
AdvertisingAd Lightning loaded on 8 sites in our October 2026 scan: 0% of the 2,450 most-visited sites we checked, before any visitor had given consent.
Category: Advertising. A company can do several jobs; this is its main role on the pages we saw.
On 100% of the sites where it loaded, a consent banner was already present but hadn't been answered yet.
Often loaded alongside
Sites that load Ad Lightning most often also load Google (100%), Amazon Advertising (88%), Google Ads (88%), Google Analytics (88%), and OneTrust (75%).
Domains it loads from
- tagan.adlightning.com
- buzzfeed-tagan.adlightning.com
Sites that load Ad Lightning
The highest-ranked 8 of 8 sites.
- huffpost.com8 tracking companies
- nypost.com8 tracking companies
- buzzfeed.com16 tracking companies
- fastcompany.com17 tracking companies
- inc.com18 tracking companies
- slate.com20 tracking companies
- aarp.org30 tracking companies
- wowhead.com7 tracking companies
Understanding this page
- What the tracker categories mean
What "advertising," "analytics," "social," "consent" and the rest actually mean for a company or a cookie, and how CookieTosser decides which one applies.
- First-party vs third-party cookies (and why "first-party" still tracks you)
What the distinction actually means technically, why browsers only block one of the two, and how CNAME cloaking, server-side tagging and cookies like _ga let sites keep tracking under their own domain.
- How to block or limit trackers
Browser privacy settings, content blockers, Global Privacy Control and clearing cookies compared honestly — what each one actually stops, what it doesn't, and what it costs you in return.