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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 trackers4
≥1 tracker28/29
Any consent signal10/29
  1. 01Northwestern Medicine19/1003rd-party28trackers8pre-cookies2
  2. 02Cleveland Clinic27/1003rd-party23trackers7pre-cookies8
  3. 03Ochsner Health29/1003rd-party23trackers8pre-cookies0
  4. 04Stanford Health Care33/1003rd-party17trackers7pre-cookies4
  5. 05UPMC33/1003rd-party20trackers6pre-cookies9
  6. 06Banner Health37/1003rd-party20trackers5pre-cookies4
  7. 07MD Anderson Cancer Center43/1003rd-party24trackers4pre-cookies0
  8. 08Vanderbilt University Medical Center45/1003rd-party20trackers5pre-cookies0
  9. 09Houston Methodist46/1003rd-party15trackers7pre-cookies4
  10. 10Baptist Health50/1003rd-party14trackers4pre-cookies3
  11. 11Boston Children's Hospital52/1003rd-party17trackers4pre-cookies5
  12. 12Massachusetts General Hospital52/1003rd-party17trackers3pre-cookies2
  13. 13Nationwide Children's Hospital52/1003rd-party11trackers4pre-cookies4
  14. 14UCLA Health53/1003rd-party15trackers4pre-cookies1
  15. 15Tampa General Hospital55/1003rd-party13trackers3pre-cookies3
  16. 16Memorial Sloan Kettering56/1003rd-party19trackers5pre-cookies0
  17. 17NewYork-Presbyterian56/1003rd-party14trackers4pre-cookies0
  18. 18Brigham and Women's Hospital57/1003rd-party13trackers3pre-cookies2
  19. 19Sutter Health58/1003rd-party14trackers3pre-cookies1
  20. 20Advocate Health61/1003rd-party16trackers2pre-cookies0
  21. 21UCSF Health66/1003rd-party14trackers3pre-cookies2
  22. 22NYU Langone Health67/1003rd-party12trackers2pre-cookies0
  23. 23Mass General Brigham68/1003rd-party14trackers3pre-cookies1
  24. 24Duke Health69/1003rd-party12trackers4pre-cookies0
  25. 25Cedars-Sinai71/1003rd-party6trackers2pre-cookies2
  26. 26Rush University Medical Center71/1003rd-party16trackers2pre-cookies0
  27. 27Emory Healthcare73/1003rd-party12trackers2pre-cookies2
  28. 28Intermountain Health79/1003rd-party4trackers1pre-cookies1
  29. 29Penn Medicine86/1003rd-party0trackers0pre-cookies2

29 of 35 US hospitals & health systems homepages · measured 2026-07-19 · score = transparent composite of the raw signals in each row

Live instrument — see Consent signal behave.

Deep dive: full analysis with this mechanism →