No, it's not. The 1 here is using interpretive index register X1 to index onto GAINBRAK. The star on the DMP means that multiplication is indexed. GAINBRAK is one of the pad-loaded descent targeting parameters; the index selects the appropriate number based on the phase of the descent.
It's even worse with schools. Most secondary schools I've clicked on over the years have had tonnes of 1-3 reviews from students complaining about getting a detention or other random nonsense.
It's tracking cookies. I have Google, Facebook and Hotjar cookies set on initial request before even having seen the cookie consent box.
However that's how the vast majority of sites implement the cookie consent regulation, and authorities (like ICO in UK) has decided to not do anything about it.
According to the GDPR even an IP address needs consent, and those are inherently transmitted when loading a third-party library regardless of cookies. Given that social media sharing isn’t a necessary function of the website, they should be asking for consent before loading the libraries, or just using a locally-hosted icon pointing to a sharing link, so that the target social network gets the data only when the button is actually clicked.
You can drop cookies that are “essential to running your business” without consent, the gdpr tcf 1.1 consent management platforms drop a “euconsent” cookie to store your consent choice lol.
Is there a key for the different language colours? I figure PHP is blue because of Swoole, but the rest are just a sea of colours I have to Google the web framework of to find the language (on mobile at least).
One of my old sites installed itself as a persistent PWA that made zero external network requests when relaunched.