What does urbandictionary.com track?
Before any consent, urbandictionary.com loaded 3 tracking companies and set 2 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.urbandictionary.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 2
- Third-party hosts
- 15
- Cookies in total
- 6
Consent banner
The page loaded consentmanager, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 3 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 10 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Confiant2 requestsAdvertising
cdn.confiant-integrations.net
- Google Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- bydata.com4 requestsUnclassified
telemetry.bydata.com
- html-load.com2 requestsUnclassified
html-load.com, stg.html-load.com
- idsequoia.ai1 requestUnclassified
api.idsequoia.ai
- Consentmanager6 requestsConsent banner
b.delivery.consentmanager.net, cdn.consentmanager.net
- Google9 requestsFunctional
www.gstatic.com, www.google.com, fonts.gstatic.com
- jsDelivr1 requestContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
- Amazon Web Services1 requestContent delivery
s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytics | urbandictionary.com | 13 months |
| _ga_2JW7QZL7QX | Analytics | urbandictionary.com | 13 months |
| _grow_uid | Unclassified | www.urbandictionary.com | 12 months |
| __cmpcccx170373 | Functional | urbandictionary.com | 14 days |
| __cmpconsentx170373 | Functional | urbandictionary.com | 14 days |
| __cmpiuid | Functional | urbandictionary.com | 12 months |
The page also wrote 10 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.