What does ubc.ca track?
Before any consent, ubc.ca loaded 4 tracking companies and set 6 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 70% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.ubc.ca once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 6
- Third-party hosts
- 14
- Cookies in total
- 8
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 6 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Google Ads6 requestsAdvertising
ad.doubleclick.net, 8341020.fls.doubleclick.net, stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de
- MediaMath3 requestsAdvertising
cdn-akamai.mookie1.com
- Snap6 requestsSocial media
tr.snapchat.com, sc-static.net, tr6.snapchat.com
- Google Analytics4 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Google4 requestsFunctional
www.google.com, ajax.googleapis.com, adservice.google.com
- Hoefler&Co (Typography.com)1 requestFunctional
cloud.typography.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | Advertising | ubc.ca | 3 months |
| _scid | Advertising | ubc.ca | 13 months |
| _scid_r | Advertising | ubc.ca | 13 months |
| sc_at | Advertising | snapchat.com (third party) | 13 months |
| _ga | Analytics | ubc.ca | 13 months |
| _ga_Q74JQJCYJK | Analytics | ubc.ca | 13 months |
| test_cookie | Functional | doubleclick.net (third party) | Under a day |
| X-AB | Functional | sc-static.net (third party) | 1 day |
The page also wrote 3 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.