What does spamhaus.org track?
Before any consent, spamhaus.org loaded 3 tracking companies and set 4 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.spamhaus.org once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 4
- Third-party hosts
- 12
- Cookies in total
- 6
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
1 of the 4 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Google Ads1 requestAdvertising
stats.g.doubleclick.net
- X (Twitter)113 requestsSocial media
platform.twitter.com, syndication.x.com, abs-0.twimg.com, cdn.syndication.twimg.com
- Google Analytics5 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, www.google-analytics.com, region1.google-analytics.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Google2 requestsFunctional
fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _dc_gtm_UA-120927734-1 | Analytics | spamhaus.org | Under a day |
| _ga | Analytics | spamhaus.org | 13 months |
| _ga_8916GD1J3M | Analytics | spamhaus.org | 13 months |
| _gid | Analytics | spamhaus.org | 1 day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | twitter.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | x.com (third party) | Under a day |
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.