What does blockchain.info track?

Before any consent, blockchain.info loaded 0 tracking companies and set 2 advertising or analytics cookies.

Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.blockchain.com/explorer once and clicking nothing. How we scan

Consent banner

No known consent management platform was detected on the page.

2 of the 2 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.

None.

The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _ga, from Google Analytics, lasting about 13 months.

Cookie	Purpose	Set by	Lasts
_ga	Analytics	blockchain.com	13 months
_ga_TP7H63LRFF	Analytics	blockchain.com	13 months
clang	Unclassified	www.blockchain.com	Session
tracking_id	Unclassified	api.blockchain.info	6 months
__cf_bm	Functional	snapmarkets.com (third party)	Under a day

The page also wrote 1 key to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.

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