What does acm.org track?
Before any consent, acm.org loaded 4 tracking companies and set 2 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 70% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.acm.org once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 2
- Third-party hosts
- 17
- Cookies in total
- 7
Consent banner
The page loaded Cookiebot, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 4 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 9 companies it contacted before consent were social media companies.
- Google Ads1 requestAdvertising
pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- YouTube18 requestsSocial media
www.youtube-nocookie.com, i.ytimg.com
- LinkedIn4 requestsSocial media
snap.licdn.com, px.ads.linkedin.com
- Google Analytics20 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- swiftypecdn.com3 requestsUnclassified
s.swiftypecdn.com
- swiftype.com1 requestUnclassified
cc.swiftype.com
- Cookiebot5 requestsConsent banner
consentcdn.cookiebot.com, consent.cookiebot.com
- Google15 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, jnn-pa.googleapis.com, www.google.com, ajax.googleapis.com
- Cloudflare6 requestsContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was bcookie, from LinkedIn, lasting about 12 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| bcookie | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 12 months |
| lidc | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 1 day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | acm.org | Under a day |
| cf_clearance | Functional | acm.org | 12 months |
| li_gc | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | 6 months |
| SERVERID | Functional | www.acm.org | Under a day |
Understanding this page
- How to see which cookies and trackers a website loads
A hands-on walkthrough for checking what a site sets before you've clicked anything, using Chrome and Firefox's built-in tools, plus how CookieTosser automates the same check every month.
- What counts as valid cookie consent in the EU
The rules that actually govern cookie banners — the ePrivacy Directive, the GDPR consent standard, the Planet49 ruling, the strictly-necessary exemption, and what "reject" has to offer compared with "accept.
- Consent management platforms explained
What a CMP banner is actually doing behind the scenes, how the IAB's TCF standard and Google's Consent Mode v2 fit in, and why a banner being present is no guarantee that nothing loads before you answer it.