What does unc.edu track?
Before any consent, unc.edu loaded 8 tracking companies and set 12 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 89% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.unc.edu once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 8
- Tracking cookies
- 12
- Third-party hosts
- 20
- Cookies in total
- 18
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 11 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads5 requestsAdvertising
stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de, ad.doubleclick.net
- Meta4 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
- LinkedIn4 requestsSocial media
snap.licdn.com, px.ads.linkedin.com
- YouTube3 requestsSocial media
www.youtube.com
- Adobe26 requestsAnalytics
use.typekit.net, p.typekit.net
- Google Analytics8 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- New Relic3 requestsAnalytics
bam.nr-data.net, js-agent.newrelic.com
- Siteimprove2 requestsAnalytics
siteimproveanalytics.com, 6357647.global.r2.siteimproveanalytics.io
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Google2 requestsFunctional
www.google.com
- Monotype (Fonts.net)1 requestFunctional
fast.fonts.net
- Microsoft Azure4 requestsContent delivery
localist-images.azureedge.net
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| _fbp | Advertising | unc.edu | 3 months |
| _gcl_au | Advertising | unc.edu | 3 months |
| bcookie | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 12 months |
| lidc | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 1 day |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| _ga | Analytics | unc.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_85Z7G6V6TR | Analytics | unc.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_BWYTL825SN | Analytics | unc.edu | 13 months |
| _ga_E95BWS6VCF | Analytics | unc.edu | 13 months |
| nmstat | Analytics | unc.edu | 13 months |
| SSESSe72ae1e2a426fcc87e0b9585c5c3749c | Unclassified | www.unc.edu | 3 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | fonts.net (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __Secure-YNID | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| li_gc | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | 6 months |
| YSC | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | Session |
The page also wrote 4 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
Understanding this page
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- 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.