pixel.ad
Unclassifiedpixel.ad loaded on 3 sites in our October 2026 scan: 0% of the 2,450 most-visited sites we checked, before any visitor had given consent.
We haven't classified this company yet, so it isn't counted as a tracker in site totals.
Category: Unclassified. A company can do several jobs; this is its main role on the pages we saw.
Only 33% of the sites where it loaded had a consent banner visible at all.
Often loaded alongside
Sites that load pixel.ad most often also load Amazon Web Services (100%), Google (100%), Adobe (67%), Basis Technologies (SiteScout) (67%), and Google Ads (67%).
Domains it loads from
- up.pixel.ad
Sites that load pixel.ad
The highest-ranked 3 of 3 sites.
- ieee.org2 tracking companies
- washington.edu12 tracking companies
- unl.edu11 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.