What does tailscale.com track?
Before any consent, tailscale.com loaded 7 tracking companies and set 18 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 86% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading tailscale.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 7
- Tracking cookies
- 18
- Third-party hosts
- 25
- Cookies in total
- 26
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 12 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Microsoft Advertising5 requestsAdvertising
bat.bing.com, c.bing.com
- Google Ads5 requestsAdvertising
stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de, ad.doubleclick.net
- Reddit5 requestsSocial media
www.redditstatic.com, alb.reddit.com, pixel-config.reddit.com
- LinkedIn4 requestsSocial media
snap.licdn.com, px.ads.linkedin.com
- Google Analytics7 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Microsoft Clarity7 requestsAnalytics
i.clarity.ms, c.clarity.ms, www.clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms
- Hotjar2 requestsAnalytics
static.hotjar.com, script.hotjar.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- rudderlabs.com7 requestsUnclassified
cdn.rudderlabs.com
- keyplay.io3 requestsUnclassified
intent.keyplay.io, cdn.keyplay.io
- Ketch7 requestsConsent banner
global.ketchcdn.com, cdn.ketchjs.com
- Google2 requestsFunctional
www.google.com
- Sanity34 requestsContent delivery
cdn.sanity.io
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _swb, from Demandbase, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | Advertising | tailscale.com | 3 months |
| _rdt_uuid | Advertising | tailscale.com | 3 months |
| _uetsid | Advertising | tailscale.com | 1 day |
| _uetvid | Advertising | tailscale.com | 13 months |
| ANONCHK | Advertising | c.clarity.ms (third party) | Under a day |
| bcookie | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 12 months |
| lidc | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 1 day |
| MR | Advertising | c.bing.com (third party) | 7 days |
| MR | Advertising | c.clarity.ms (third party) | 7 days |
| MUID | Advertising | bing.com (third party) | 13 months |
| MUID | Advertising | clarity.ms (third party) | 13 months |
| _clck | Analytics | tailscale.com | 12 months |
| _clsk | Analytics | tailscale.com | 1 day |
| _swb | Analytics | tailscale.com | 13 months |
| rl_anonymous_id | Analytics | tailscale.com | 12 months |
| rl_page_init_referrer | Analytics | tailscale.com | 12 months |
| rl_session | Analytics | tailscale.com | 12 months |
| SM | Analytics | c.clarity.ms (third party) | Session |
| keyplay_device_id | Unclassified | tailscale.com | 12 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | Under a day |
| _hjSession_5221919 | Functional | tailscale.com | Under a day |
| _hjSessionUser_5221919 | Functional | tailscale.com | 12 months |
| li_gc | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | 6 months |
| SRM_B | Functional | c.bing.com (third party) | 13 months |
| _ketch_consent_v1_ | Necessary | tailscale.com | 13 months |
| _swb_consent_ | Necessary | tailscale.com | 7 days |
The page also wrote 16 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
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- What counts as valid cookie consent in the EU
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- Consent management platforms explained
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