What does buffalo.edu track?
Before any consent, buffalo.edu loaded 5 tracking companies and set 8 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 78% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.buffalo.edu once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 5
- Tracking cookies
- 8
- Third-party hosts
- 21
- Cookies in total
- 22
Consent banner
The page loaded IAB TCF (unidentified platform), a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 5 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
6 of the 14 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Google Ads5 requestsAdvertising
www.google.de, stats.g.doubleclick.net, ad.doubleclick.net
- LoopMe1 requestAdvertising
i.loopme.me
- LinkedIn4 requestsSocial media
snap.licdn.com, px.ads.linkedin.com
- Google Analytics16 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com, www.google-analytics.com
- Hotjar2 requestsAnalytics
static.hotjar.com, script.hotjar.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- meritpages.com3 requestsUnclassified
api.meritpages.com
- simpli.fi2 requestsUnclassified
tag.simpli.fi
- inpwrd.net1 requestUnclassified
cdn.inpwrd.net
- loopme.com1 requestUnclassified
gdpr.loopme.com
- kcc0.com1 requestUnclassified
kcc0.com
- tk0x1.com1 requestUnclassified
dsp.tk0x1.com
- Google4 requestsFunctional
www.google.com, fonts.googleapis.com
- Amazon Web Services1 requestContent delivery
s3.amazonaws.com
- jQuery CDN1 requestContent delivery
code.jquery.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was viewer_token, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | Advertising | buffalo.edu | 3 months |
| bcookie | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 12 months |
| lidc | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 1 day |
| viewer_token | Advertising | www.buffalo.edu | 13 months |
| viewer_token | Advertising | dsp.tk0x1.com (third party) | 3 months |
| _ga | Analytics | buffalo.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_XV534ZVGMN | Analytics | buffalo.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_YT227PTHYE | Analytics | buffalo.edu | 13 months |
| __tld | Unclassified | buffalo.edu | Session |
| canPersist | Unclassified | buffalo.edu | 12 months |
| dxp-sessionid | Unclassified | search.buffalo.edu | Under a day |
| lm_ct | Unclassified | www.buffalo.edu | Under a day |
| lm_ssid | Unclassified | www.buffalo.edu | Under a day |
| session_pages | Unclassified | www.buffalo.edu | Under a day |
| SRVCOOKIE | Unclassified | buffalo.edu | Session |
| SRVCOOKIE | Unclassified | www.buffalo.edu | Session |
| suid | Unclassified | simpli.fi (third party) | 12 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | search.buffalo.edu | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | Under a day |
| _hjSession_1234795 | Functional | buffalo.edu | Under a day |
| _hjSessionUser_1234795 | Functional | buffalo.edu | 12 months |
| li_gc | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | 6 months |
The page also wrote 1 key to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
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.