What does semanticscholar.org track?
Before any consent, semanticscholar.org loaded 3 tracking companies and set 7 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 58% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.semanticscholar.org once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 7
- Third-party hosts
- 23
- Cookies in total
- 21
Consent banner
The page loaded Osano, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 3 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 7 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads5 requestsAdvertising
ad.doubleclick.net, stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de, www.googleadservices.com
- HubSpot9 requestsAnalytics
js.hs-scripts.com, js.hubspot.com, js.hsadspixel.net, js.hs-analytics.net
- Google Analytics5 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _ga, from Google Analytics, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| __hssc | Advertising | semanticscholar.org | Under a day |
| __hssrc | Advertising | semanticscholar.org | Session |
| __hstc | Advertising | semanticscholar.org | 6 months |
| _gcl_au | Advertising | semanticscholar.org | 3 months |
| hubspotutk | Advertising | semanticscholar.org | 6 months |
| _ga | Analytics | semanticscholar.org | 13 months |
| _ga_H7P4ZT52H5 | Analytics | semanticscholar.org | 13 months |
| pvSession | Unclassified | semanticscholar.org | Under a day |
| s2Exp | Unclassified | www.semanticscholar.org | 12 months |
| sid | Unclassified | www.semanticscholar.org | Under a day |
| tid | Unclassified | semanticscholar.org | 13 months |
| tid | Unclassified | www.semanticscholar.org | 13 months |
| tisestart | Unclassified | semanticscholar.org | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | hs-scripts.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | hsadspixel.net (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | hs-banner.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | hs-analytics.net (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | hubspot.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | hsforms.com (third party) | Under a day |
| g_state | Functional | www.semanticscholar.org | 6 months |
| aws-waf-token | Necessary | www.semanticscholar.org | 4 days |
The page also wrote 5 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.