What does edx.org track?
Before any consent, edx.org loaded 3 tracking companies and set 1 advertising or analytics cookie.
That's more tracking companies than 58% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.edx.org once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 11
- Cookies in total
- 11
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 3 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 6 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- New Relic6 requestsAnalytics
bam.nr-data.net, js-agent.newrelic.com
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Branch3 requestsAnalytics
api2.branch.io, app.link
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _s, from Shopify, lasting about 12 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _s | Analytics | app.link (third party) | 12 months |
| authx_coin_flip | Unclassified | www.edx.org | 30 days |
| chsn_cnsnt | Unclassified | edx.org | 13 months |
| dapi_random_id | Unclassified | edx.org | 7 days |
| lms_sessionid | Unclassified | courses.edx.org | 1 day |
| prod-edx-cf-loc | Unclassified | edx.org | 1 day |
| prod-edx-cf-mobile | Unclassified | www.edx.org | 1 day |
| prod-edx-cf-region | Unclassified | www.edx.org | 1 day |
| prod-edx-language-preference | Unclassified | edx.org | 12 months |
| tglr_correlation_id | Unclassified | edx.org | Under a day |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | edx.org | 12 months |
The page also wrote 2 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
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.