What does hackaday.com track?
Before any consent, hackaday.com loaded 1 tracking company and set 1 advertising or analytics cookie.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 75% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading hackaday.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 13
- Cookies in total
- 3
Consent banner
The page loaded Usercentrics, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 1 tracking company still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
1 of the 4 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Adobe43 requestsAnalytics
use.typekit.net
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- supplyframe.com16 requestsUnclassified
rv-ads.supplyframe.com, analytics.supplyframe.com, images.ads.supplyframe.com, rv-images.ads.supplyframe.com
- Usercentrics17 requestsConsent banner
web.cmp.usercentrics.eu, v1.api.service.cmp.usercentrics.eu, uct.service.usercentrics.eu, app.usercentrics.eu
- WordPress.com10 requestsFunctional
i0.wp.com, stats.wp.com, pixel.wp.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was OAID, from OpenX, lasting about 12 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| OAID | Advertising | rv-ads.supplyframe.com (third party) | 12 months |
| supplyframeUserId | Unclassified | supplyframe.com (third party) | 12 months |
| amzn_consent | Necessary | hackaday.com | 28 days |
The page also wrote 3 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.