What does unsw.edu.au track?
Before any consent, unsw.edu.au loaded 1 tracking company and set 4 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 75% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.unsw.edu.au once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 4
- Third-party hosts
- 6
- Cookies in total
- 11
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 1 tracking company still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
1 of the 3 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Adobe14 requestsAnalytics
assets.adobedtm.com, edge.adobedc.net, rum.hlx.page
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- squiz.cloud2 requestsUnclassified
unsw-search.funnelback.squiz.cloud
- OneTrust12 requestsConsent banner
cdn-au.onetrust.com, geolocation.onetrust.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was mbox, from Adobe, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMCV_8A5564D65437E5950A4C98A2%40AdobeOrg | Advertising | unsw.edu.au | 13 months |
| mbox | Advertising | unsw.edu.au | 13 months |
| mboxEdgeCluster | Analytics | unsw.edu.au | Under a day |
| s_nr30 | Analytics | www.unsw.edu.au | 30 days |
| kndctr_8A5564D65437E5950A4C98A2_AdobeOrg_cluster | Unclassified | unsw.edu.au | Under a day |
| kndctr_8A5564D65437E5950A4C98A2_AdobeOrg… | Unclassified | unsw.edu.au | 13 months |
| AWSALB | Functional | unsw.edu.au | 7 days |
| AWSALB | Functional | www.unsw.edu.au | 7 days |
| AWSALBCORS | Functional | unsw.edu.au | 7 days |
| AWSALBCORS | Functional | www.unsw.edu.au | 7 days |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | unsw.edu.au | 12 months |
The page also wrote 13 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.