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Consent signal

Analytics & privacyDefined term⦿ live instrument below

A consent signal is the stored outcome of a user's privacy choice, propagated to every script that might collect data. Consent platforms broadcast standardized signals that tag managers and vendors are supposed to honor before firing.

The mechanics are observable from outside: what loads before any choice is made, whether a choice is even offered, and what a refusal actually suppresses. Our hospital-sector measurements found most sampled homepages setting cookies before any interaction — the gap between consent theater and consent enforcement.

Median trackers1
≥1 tracker15/29
Any consent signal7/29
  1. 01Northwestern Medicine41/1003rd-party25trackers3pre-cookies2
  2. 02Stanford Health Care53/1003rd-party16trackers2pre-cookies4
  3. 03Banner Health57/1003rd-party16trackers1pre-cookies4
  4. 04Cleveland Clinic59/1003rd-party16trackers1pre-cookies8
  5. 05Ochsner Health61/1003rd-party16trackers2pre-cookies0
  6. 06Mount Sinai62/1003rd-party18trackers1pre-cookies0
  7. 07Nationwide Children's Hospital63/1003rd-party9trackers2pre-cookies4
  8. 08UPMC64/1003rd-party18trackers1pre-cookies4
  9. 09Vanderbilt University Medical Center65/1003rd-party16trackers1pre-cookies0
  10. 10Tampa General Hospital67/1003rd-party13trackers0pre-cookies3
  11. 11Massachusetts General Hospital68/1003rd-party11trackers1pre-cookies2
  12. 12UCLA Health70/1003rd-party11trackers1pre-cookies1
  13. 13Emory Healthcare70/1003rd-party12trackers0pre-cookies2
  14. 14Houston Methodist71/1003rd-party13trackers1pre-cookies4
  15. 15Baptist Health72/1003rd-party9trackers0pre-cookies3
  16. 16Mass General Brigham72/1003rd-party12trackers0pre-cookies1
  17. 17Brigham and Women's Hospital73/1003rd-party10trackers0pre-cookies2
  18. 18Advocate Health73/1003rd-party13trackers0pre-cookies0
  19. 19NYU Langone Health78/1003rd-party9trackers0pre-cookies0
  20. 20Sutter Health79/1003rd-party7trackers0pre-cookies1
  21. 21MD Anderson Cancer Center79/1003rd-party8trackers0pre-cookies0
  22. 22Intermountain Health80/1003rd-party3trackers1pre-cookies1
  23. 23NewYork-Presbyterian81/1003rd-party7trackers0pre-cookies0
  24. 24Cedars-Sinai83/1003rd-party2trackers0pre-cookies2
  25. 25Memorial Sloan Kettering83/1003rd-party10trackers1pre-cookies0
  26. 26Duke Health84/1003rd-party9trackers1pre-cookies0
  27. 27UCSF Health85/1003rd-party8trackers0pre-cookies2
  28. 28Rush University Medical Center85/1003rd-party11trackers0pre-cookies0
  29. 29Penn Medicine86/1003rd-party0trackers0pre-cookies2

29 of 35 US hospitals and health systems homepages · measured 2026-08-03 · score = transparent composite of the raw signals in each row

Live instrument — see Consent signal behave.

Deep dive: full analysis with this mechanism →