What does netgate.com track?
Before any consent, netgate.com loaded 2 tracking companies and set 1 advertising or analytics cookie.
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 www.netgate.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 12
- Cookies in total
- 9
Consent banner
The page loaded iubenda, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 2 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 3 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- HubSpot34 requestsAnalytics
static.hsappstatic.net, 1826203.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net, app.hubspot.com, perf.hsforms.com
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- iubenda5 requestsConsent banner
cdn.iubenda.com, embeds.iubenda.com, idb.iubenda.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was messagesUtk, from HubSpot, lasting about 6 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| messagesUtk | Advertising | netgate.com | 6 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | netgate.com | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | hubspot.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | usemessages.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | hsforms.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | hsappstatic.net (third party) | Under a day |
| _cfuvid | Functional | netgate.com | Session |
| _iub_cs-s4235884-uspr | Functional | netgate.com | 12 months |
| usprivacy | Functional | netgate.com | 12 months |
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.