What does uwaterloo.ca track?
Before any consent, uwaterloo.ca loaded 7 tracking companies and set 20 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 uwaterloo.ca once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 7
- Tracking cookies
- 20
- Third-party hosts
- 23
- Cookies in total
- 25
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 advertising companies.
- StackAdapt4 requestsAdvertising
tags.srv.stackadapt.com
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
ad.doubleclick.net, stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de
- Microsoft Advertising1 requestAdvertising
bat.bing.com
- LinkedIn4 requestsSocial media
snap.licdn.com, px.ads.linkedin.com
- Meta3 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
- Google Analytics12 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com, www.google-analytics.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- New Relic8 requestsAnalytics
bam.nr-data.net, js-agent.newrelic.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- acuityplatform.com2 requestsUnclassified
origin.acuityplatform.com, e.acuityplatform.com
- technolutions.net1 requestUnclassified
wat.test.technolutions.net
- Google7 requestsFunctional
www.google.com, fonts.gstatic.com, fonts.googleapis.com
- Cloudflare2 requestsContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.com
- jsDelivr1 requestContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Advertising | uwaterloo.ca | 3 months |
| _gcl_au | Advertising | uwaterloo.ca | 3 months |
| auid | Advertising | acuityplatform.com (third party) | 12 months |
| bcookie | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 12 months |
| lidc | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 1 day |
| sa-user-id | Advertising | tags.srv.stackadapt.com (third party) | 12 months |
| sa-user-id | Advertising | srv.stackadapt.com (third party) | 12 months |
| sa-user-id | Advertising | uwaterloo.ca | 12 months |
| sa-user-id-v2 | Advertising | tags.srv.stackadapt.com (third party) | 12 months |
| sa-user-id-v2 | Advertising | srv.stackadapt.com (third party) | 12 months |
| sa-user-id-v2 | Advertising | uwaterloo.ca | 12 months |
| sa-user-id-v3 | Advertising | uwaterloo.ca | 12 months |
| sa-user-id-v4 | Advertising | tags.srv.stackadapt.com (third party) | 12 months |
| sa-user-id-v4 | Advertising | srv.stackadapt.com (third party) | 12 months |
| sa-user-id-v4 | Advertising | uwaterloo.ca | 12 months |
| _ga | Analytics | uwaterloo.ca | 13 months |
| _ga_L2Z2MKPQ2G | Analytics | uwaterloo.ca | 30 days |
| _ga_W3BFRPSG9B | Analytics | uwaterloo.ca | 13 months |
| _gat_UA-51776731-1 | Analytics | uwaterloo.ca | Under a day |
| _gid | Analytics | uwaterloo.ca | 1 day |
| _hash | Unclassified | wat.test.technolutions.net (third party) | 13 months |
| _hashV | Unclassified | wat.test.technolutions.net (third party) | 13 months |
| _node | Unclassified | wat.test.technolutions.net (third party) | Session |
| __cf_bm | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | Under a day |
| li_gc | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | 6 months |
The page also wrote 8 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
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