What does grow.google track?
Before any consent, grow.google loaded 2 tracking companies and set 9 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 56% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading grow.google/intl/de once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 9
- Third-party hosts
- 11
- Cookies in total
- 11
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
1 of the 3 companies it contacted before consent were social media companies.
- YouTube2 requestsSocial media
www.youtube.com
- Google Analytics9 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com, www.google-analytics.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Google43 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, storage.googleapis.com, www.gstatic.com, apis.google.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _ga, from Google Analytics, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| NID | Advertising | google.com (third party) | 6 months |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| _ga | Analytics | grow.google | 13 months |
| _ga_4B27YL4K71 | Analytics | grow.google | 13 months |
| _ga_J46PZ5M19F | Analytics | grow.google | 13 months |
| _gat_gtag_UA_175165319_134 | Analytics | grow.google | Under a day |
| _gid | Analytics | grow.google | 1 day |
| __Secure-YNID | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| YSC | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | Session |
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.