What does linkedin.com track?
Before any consent, linkedin.com loaded 0 tracking companies and set 3 advertising or analytics cookies.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.linkedin.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 0
- Tracking cookies
- 3
- Third-party hosts
- 10
- Cookies in total
- 12
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 4 companies it contacted before consent were functional companies.
None.
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- protechts.net6 requestsUnclassified
collector-pxdojv695v.protechts.net, li.protechts.net, client.protechts.net, tzm.protechts.net
- Google14 requestsFunctional
www.google.com, www.gstatic.com, accounts.google.com, fonts.gstatic.com
- Microsoft6 requestsFunctional
edge-auth.microsoft.com
- HUMAN Security (PerimeterX)1 requestFunctional
ri.px-cloud.net
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was bcookie, from LinkedIn, lasting about 12 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| bcookie | Advertising | linkedin.com | 12 months |
| bscookie | Advertising | www.linkedin.com | 12 months |
| lidc | Advertising | linkedin.com | 1 day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | linkedin.com | Under a day |
| _GRECAPTCHA | Functional | www.google.com (third party) | 6 months |
| JSESSIONID | Functional | www.linkedin.com | Session |
| lang | Functional | linkedin.com | Session |
| li_alerts | Functional | www.linkedin.com | 12 months |
| li_gc | Functional | linkedin.com | 6 months |
| _px3 | Necessary | protechts.net (third party) | Under a day |
| _pxvid | Necessary | protechts.net (third party) | 12 months |
| pxcts | Necessary | protechts.net (third party) | Session |
The page also wrote 1 key to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
Understanding this page
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- Consent management platforms explained
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