What does change.org track?
Before any consent, change.org loaded 6 tracking companies and set 1 advertising or analytics cookie.
That's more tracking companies than 83% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.change.org once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 6
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 20
- Cookies in total
- 10
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 10 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Microsoft Advertising5 requestsAdvertising
bat.bing.net, bat.bing.com
- Google Ads2 requestsAdvertising
pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- Amplitude20 requestsAnalytics
cdn.amplitude.com, gs.amplitude.com
- Google Analytics4 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- New Relic3 requestsAnalytics
bam.nr-data.net, js-agent.newrelic.com
- Optimizely1 requestAnalytics
cdn-pci.optimizely.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- HUMAN Security (PerimeterX)8 requestsFunctional
collector-pxnslc0hv5.px-cloud.net, b.px-cdn.net, client.px-cloud.net, ift.px-cloud.net
- Stripe6 requestsFunctional
js.stripe.com, m.stripe.network, m.stripe.com
- Google3 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, accounts.google.com
- Sentry1 requestFunctional
o4507702880894976.ingest.us.sentry.io
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was optimizelyOptOut, from Optimizely, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| optimizelyOptOut | Advertising | change.org | 13 months |
| __pxvid | Unclassified | change.org | 12 months |
| _change_session | Unclassified | www.change.org | 13 months |
| __stripe_mid | Functional | www.change.org | 12 months |
| __stripe_sid | Functional | www.change.org | Under a day |
| JSESSIONID | Functional | nr-data.net (third party) | Session |
| m | Functional | m.stripe.com (third party) | 13 months |
| _px3 | Necessary | change.org | Under a day |
| _pxvid | Necessary | change.org | 12 months |
| pxcts | Necessary | change.org | Session |
The page also wrote 7 keys 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
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- 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.