What does heylink.me track?
Before any consent, heylink.me loaded 7 tracking companies and set 17 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 86% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading heylink.me once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 7
- Tracking cookies
- 17
- Third-party hosts
- 24
- Cookies in total
- 27
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 7 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 14 companies it contacted before consent were social media companies.
- Microsoft Advertising7 requestsAdvertising
bat.bing.com
- Google Ads5 requestsAdvertising
www.google.de, stats.g.doubleclick.net, googleads.g.doubleclick.net, ad.doubleclick.net
- TikTok8 requestsSocial media
analytics.tiktok.com, analytics-ipv6.tiktokw.us
- Meta3 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
- X (Twitter)3 requestsSocial media
static.ads-twitter.com, t.co, analytics.twitter.com
- Google Analytics4 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Cloudflare Web Analytics1 requestAnalytics
static.cloudflareinsights.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- freshchat.com16 requestsUnclassified
assetscdn-wchat.au.freshchat.com, wchat.au.freshchat.com
- freshworksapi.com1 requestUnclassified
rts-static-prod.freshworksapi.com
- OneTrust9 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Google3 requestsFunctional
www.google.com
- jsDelivr2 requestsContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
- unpkg2 requestsContent delivery
unpkg.com
- Cloudflare1 requestContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was guest_id, from X (Twitter), lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Advertising | heylink.me | 3 months |
| _gcl_au | Advertising | heylink.me | 3 months |
| _tt_enable_cookie | Advertising | heylink.me | 13 months |
| _ttp | Advertising | tiktok.com (third party) | 13 months |
| _ttp | Advertising | heylink.me | 13 months |
| _uetsid | Advertising | heylink.me | 1 day |
| _uetvid | Advertising | heylink.me | 13 months |
| guest_id | Advertising | twitter.com (third party) | 13 months |
| guest_id_ads | Advertising | twitter.com (third party) | 13 months |
| guest_id_marketing | Advertising | twitter.com (third party) | 13 months |
| muc_ads | Advertising | t.co (third party) | 13 months |
| MUID | Advertising | bing.com (third party) | 13 months |
| personalization_id | Advertising | twitter.com (third party) | 13 months |
| ttcsid | Advertising | heylink.me | 13 months |
| ttcsid_C1902KRQIA5GK7IMV8HG | Advertising | heylink.me | 13 months |
| _ga | Analytics | heylink.me | 13 months |
| _ga_SLMX7BZBWP | Analytics | heylink.me | 13 months |
| _twpid | Unclassified | heylink.me | 13 months |
| _twsid | Unclassified | heylink.me | 13 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | t.co (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | twitter.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | heylink.me | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | freshchat.com (third party) | Under a day |
| _cfuvid | Functional | heylink.me | Session |
| cf_clearance | Functional | heylink.me | 12 months |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | heylink.me | 12 months |
| test_cookie | Functional | doubleclick.net (third party) | Under a day |
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
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.