Understanding cookies and how you're being tracked online
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How it works
On Cookiedatabase.org you can download, contribute, discuss and edit information about cookies and the organizations that place or read them. You can also become part of our community of moderators specialized in website tracking and personal data.
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About Cookiedatabase.org
Cookiedatabase.org is a project with the goal to bring more transparency in the online world of website tracking and collecting personal data. Nowadays almost everybody gets targeted through the use of cookies and other online techniques. Many times their function and the duration they stay active is unknown. We want to change that by describing the consequences for data privacy. To do this we first have to know what all these different cookies and services actually do, why they are placed, and how they are used.
Through the use of an API, or by using the search function, everybody can use the data from the cookiedatabase. The database also makes it possible to translate the descriptions of the cookies in all languages.
In the second stage of the project we will try to understand what a company actually knows about website visitors when they combine the data they get from different cookies and services.
This project started in 2019 with the help of several volunteers; and supported by Complianz, a Privacy Suite for WordPress and SIDN Fund, a Dutch foundation focussing on user empowerment and a stronger internet for all.
In only two weeks after the start, more than 5000 different cookies were added by our users! Foremost, Cookiedatabase.org is a community effort and this is why we need you! Please have a look at our F.A.Q. to join our community! All the data in the cookiedatabase can be used freely under the Attribution-ShareAlike-4.0-International License.
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As a moderator you can add or edit translations. Edit existing cookies, verify pending cookies by our community and moderate on our forum. Join the community and make an impact!