What does ning.com track?
Before any consent, ning.com loaded 10 tracking companies and set 12 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 92% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.ning.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 10
- Tracking cookies
- 12
- Third-party hosts
- 32
- Cookies in total
- 24
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
5 of the 13 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- AdRoll5 requestsAdvertising
s.adroll.com, d.adroll.com
- Microsoft Advertising4 requestsAdvertising
bat.bing.com, bat.bing.net
- Yahoo3 requestsAdvertising
s.yimg.com, sp.analytics.yahoo.com
- Quora Ads3 requestsAdvertising
q.quora.com, a.quora.com
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
ad.doubleclick.net, stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de
- Pinterest7 requestsSocial media
ct.pinterest.com, s.pinimg.com
- X (Twitter)5 requestsSocial media
t.co, analytics.twitter.com, static.ads-twitter.com
- LinkedIn4 requestsSocial media
snap.licdn.com, px.ads.linkedin.com
- Meta3 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
- Google Analytics7 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, www.google-analytics.com, region1.analytics.google.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- LiveChat22 requestsFunctional
cdn.livechatinc.com, api.livechatinc.com, secure.livechatinc.com, accounts.livechatinc.com
- Google5 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, fonts.googleapis.com, www.google.com
- Cloudflare11 requestsContent delivery
challenges.cloudflare.com, brunhild.challenges.cloudflare.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was muc_ads, from X (Twitter), lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Advertising | ning.com | 3 months |
| _gcl_au | Advertising | ning.com | 3 months |
| _pin_unauth | Advertising | ning.com | 12 months |
| _pinterest_ct_ua | Advertising | ct.pinterest.com (third party) | 12 months |
| bcookie | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 12 months |
| lidc | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 1 day |
| muc_ads | Advertising | t.co (third party) | 13 months |
| personalization_id | Advertising | twitter.com (third party) | 13 months |
| _ga | Analytics | ning.com | 13 months |
| _ga_QZT0EW6S85 | Analytics | ning.com | 13 months |
| _gat_UA-85786276-5 | Analytics | ning.com | Under a day |
| _gid | Analytics | ning.com | 1 day |
| __oauth_redirect_detector | Unclassified | accounts.livechatinc.com (third party) | Under a day |
| _twpid | Unclassified | ning.com | 13 months |
| _twsid | Unclassified | ning.com | 13 months |
| xn_uuid | Unclassified | ning.com | 30 days |
| __cf_bm | Functional | t.co (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | twitter.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __lc_cid | Functional | accounts.livechatinc.com (third party) | 13 months |
| __lc_cid | Functional | accounts.livechatinc.com (third party) | 13 months |
| __lc_cst | Functional | accounts.livechatinc.com (third party) | 13 months |
| __lc_cst | Functional | accounts.livechatinc.com (third party) | 13 months |
| li_gc | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | 6 months |
The page also wrote 3 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
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