Meta
Social mediaMeta loaded on 293 sites in our October 2026 scan: 12% of the 2,450 most-visited sites we checked, before any visitor had given consent.
Category: Social media. A company can do several jobs; this is its main role on the pages we saw.
Its cookies typically last about 1 day. Only 44% of the sites where it loaded had a consent banner visible at all. It's especially common on .com.br sites: 52% of them load it, versus 12% of all sites we scanned.
About Meta
Meta owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and its connect.facebook.net script is the basis for both social widgets and the Meta Pixel used for ad measurement.
The same script can power a "Like" button or embedded post, or run silently as the Meta Pixel, reporting page visits and events back to Meta so an advertiser can measure and retarget based on them. It's why Meta shows up on sites with no visible Facebook content at all.
People with a Facebook or Instagram account can review and limit this through Meta's Ad Preferences and Off-Facebook Activity settings.
Often loaded alongside
Sites that load Meta most often also load Google Analytics (93%), Google (89%), Google Ads (85%), Amazon Web Services (34%), and LinkedIn (31%).
Domains it loads from
- connect.facebook.net
- www.facebook.com
- static.xx.fbcdn.net
- www.instagram.com
- scontent.xx.fbcdn.net
- static.cdninstagram.com
- scontent.cdninstagram.com
- graph.instagram.com
- scontent-sea5-1.cdninstagram.com
- external.xx.fbcdn.net
- scontent-iad6-1.cdninstagram.com
- scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com
- scontent-iad3-2.cdninstagram.com
- scontent-iad3-2.xx.fbcdn.net
- scontent-iad6-1.xx.fbcdn.net
- scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net
- graph.facebook.com
- platform.instagram.com
Cookies
Sites that load Meta
The highest-ranked 30 of 293 sites.
- applovin.com8 tracking companies
- harvard.edu4 tracking companies
- alibaba.com7 tracking companies
- dell.com12 tracking companies
- media.net6 tracking companies
- datadoghq.com14 tracking companies
- globo.com24 tracking companies
- mediatek.com7 tracking companies
- threads.com1 tracking company
- playstation.com3 tracking companies
Show 20 more sites
- techcrunch.com38 tracking companies
- optimizely.com4 tracking companies
- oxylabs.io11 tracking companies
- shopee.co.id3 tracking companies
- buydomains.com2 tracking companies
- meta.com1 tracking company
- nikkei.com3 tracking companies
- curseforge.com9 tracking companies
- fiverr.com7 tracking companies
- prnewswire.com13 tracking companies
- rakuten.com3 tracking companies
- liftoff.io6 tracking companies
- ryanair.com3 tracking companies
- usps.com24 tracking companies
- pexels.com4 tracking companies
- worldbank.org9 tracking companies
- washington.edu12 tracking companies
- auvik.com7 tracking companies
- fidelity.com15 tracking companies
- character.ai5 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.