What is the pxcelPage* cookie?
ShareThis Tag Management System cookie to track status of pixel rotation loading. ShareThis uses a different cookie for different groups of sites within the ShareThis network.
Our October 2026 scan found it on 5 sites (0% of the 2,450 we scanned), set before any consent.
- Purpose
- Analytics
- Belongs to
- ShareThis
- Set as
- Third-party (under another company's domain)
- Typical lifetime
- 30 days (vendor says: 1 year) — shorter than the vendor documents
- Name
- A family of cookies: the part after pxcelPage varies by site or account.
Sites that set pxcelPage* before consent
The highest-ranked 5 of 5 sites.
- tapad.com12 tracking companies
- bollyflix.free7 tracking companies
- hdhub4u.bi8 tracking companies
- unicef.org13 tracking companies
- rutgers.edu12 tracking companies
Related cookies
Other cookies from ShareThis.
How to stop it
Declining non-essential cookies in a site's consent banner should stop pxcelPage* being set on later visits. Blocking third-party cookies in your browser settings stops the third-party kind everywhere, and clearing cookies for a site removes any it already set.
Description from the Open Cookie Database (Apache 2.0).
Understanding this page
- How cookie lifetimes work, and why a 13-month _ga matters
What a cookie's "expires" field actually controls, why Google Analytics ships a 2-year default that many sites cut down to 13 months, and how Safari's 7-day cap on script-set cookies changes the picture.
- 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.