Tracking Gusty Winds and Elevated Fire Danger in Southern Colorado

Krdo · Apr 12, 2026 · 1062 words · By Steve Roldan

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23 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“A powerful search engine that organizes and provides access to vast information on the internet.”

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The claim describes the general function of a search engine. The cross-reference cites this general function, and the web search results provide technical context confirming that search engines retrieve documents based on keywords entered by users.

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web search NEUTRAL — Searchengineshave been developedtoaddresstheproblem of finding desiredinformationontheInternet. ... Thesesearchenginesoperateonthe...
https://patents.google.com/patent/US6978264B2/en

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web search NEUTRAL — End users typically enterasinputtoasearchtool orengine, key wordsdescribingtheinformationanddocumentstheyare seeking.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US6336117B1/en

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web search NEUTRAL — Searchenginesare known for retrievingalist of addresses of documentsontheWeb relevanttoasearchkeyword or keywords.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20070067304A1/en

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“UULE sends precise location information from your browser to Googles servers so that Google can show you results that are relevant to your location.”

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The claim is consistently reported across multiple cross-reference sources, all stating that UULE sends precise location information to Google's servers for location-relevant results.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — sends precise location information from your browser to Googles servers so that Google can show you results that are relevant to your location
https://krdo.com/news/2026/04/08/pueblo-fire-department-batt…

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“TAID is used to link your activity across devices if you've previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. We do this to coordinate that the ads you see across devices and measure conversion events.”

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The claim is consistently reported across multiple cross-reference sources, detailing that TAID links user activity across devices where the user signed into their Google Account for coordinating ads and measuring conversions.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The distinction between rhoticity and non-rhoticity is one of the most prominent ways in which varieties of the English language are classified. In rhotic accents, the sound of the historical English …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Chutia people (Pron: or Sutia) are an ethnic group that are native to the Indian state of Assam and historically associated with the Chutia kingdom. However, after the kingdom was absorbed into t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutia_people

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Used to link your activity across devices if you've previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. We do this to coordinate that the ads you see across devices and measure conversion e…
https://krdo.com/weather/2026/04/12/tracking-fire-weather/

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“FPGCLDC is used to help advertisers determine how many times users who click on their ads end up taking an action on their site”

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Multiple web search results confirm that FPGCLDC is used to help advertisers determine how many times users who click on their ads end up taking an action on their site.

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web search NEUTRAL — 1 year.FPGCLDC. Used tohelpadvertisersdetermine how many timesuserswhoclickontheiradsend uptakinganactionontheirsite.
https://www.kq2.com/news/2026/04/10/tracking-a-gloomy-and-co…

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web search NEUTRAL — Used tohelpadvertisersdetermine how many timesuserswhoclickontheiradsend uptakinganactionontheirsite.
https://freedpotool.com/th/cookies/fpgcldc/google/google

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web search NEUTRAL — CookieFPGCLDC.PurposeAdvertising. TFPAI stands for Teads First Party Auction ID. It allows the correlation of theclickonanadby auser, with the visit on awebsiteby thisuser.
https://www.jumeirah.com/it/article/stories/global/discover-…

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“g_enabled_idps is used for Google Single Sign On”

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The claim is consistently reported across multiple cross-reference sources, all stating that g_enabled_idps is used for Google Single Sign On.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication scheme that allows a user to log in with a single ID to any of several related, yet independent, software systems. True single sign-on allows the user to log …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_sign-on

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A Google Account is a user account that is required for access, authentication and authorization to certain online Google services. It is also often used as single sign-on for third party services.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Account

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Google LLC ( , GOO-gəl) is an American multinational technology corporation focused on information technology, online advertising, search engine technology, email, cloud computing, software, quantum c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google

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“gcl is used in context with load balancing - This optimizes the response rate between the visitor and the site, by distributing the traffic load on multiple network links or servers.”

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While the web search results confirm that Google Cloud Load Balancing distributes traffic to optimize response rate, the claim specifically attributes this function to the 'gcl' cookie. The evidence provided describes general load balancing concepts and cookie usage in general, but does not confirm that the 'gcl' cookie is the mechanism responsible for this specific optimization function.

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web search NEUTRAL — A backend service defines how CloudLoadBalancingdistributestraffic.Thebackend service configuration contains a set of values, such as the protocolusedtoconnect to backends, various distribution and se…
https://docs.cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/backend-se…

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web search NEUTRAL — Google cloudloadbalancer ensures high availability, realibility, and low latency with advancetrafficmanagement strategies and stabilized anycast.
https://sre.google/workbook/managing-load/

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web search NEUTRAL — Aftertraffichas been initially routed to an EC2 instance, the EC2 instance applicationresponseshould contain a custom applicationcookie, which is sent back to the client along with an automated Applic…
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/loa…

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“HSID downloads certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search.”

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Only one Wikipedia source was provided, defining what an HTTP cookie is generally, but it does not specifically mention the 'HSID' cookie or its function regarding saving preferences or adjusting ads in Google Search. Therefore, the claim cannot be corroborated.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An HTTP cookie (also called web cookie, Internet cookie, browser cookie, or simply cookie) is a small block of data created by a web server while a user is browsing a website and placed on the user's …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie

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“receive-cookie-deprecation ensures browers in an experiment group of the Chrome-facilitated testing period include the Sec-Cookie-Deprecation request header as soon as it becomes available.”

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The claim is consistently reported across multiple cross-reference sources, detailing that this cookie ensures browsers in an experiment group include the Sec-Cookie-Deprecation request header.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — This cookie ensures browers in an experiment group of the Chrome-facilitated testing period include the Sec-Cookie-Deprecation request header
https://krdo.com/news/top-stories/2026/04/09/cdot-repairing-…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — This cookie ensures browers in an experiment group of the Chrome-facilitated testing period include the Sec-Cookie-Deprecation request header as soon as it becomes available.
https://krdo.com/weather/2026/04/12/tracking-fire-weather/

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“CONSENT is Google cookie consent tracker”

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The claim is consistently reported across multiple cross-reference sources, stating that CONSENT functions as a Google cookie consent tracker.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Google cookie consent tracker
https://krdo.com/weather/2026/04/12/tracking-fire-weather/

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“FCCDCF is Cookie for Google Funding Choices API which allows for functionality specific to consent gathering for things like GDPR consent and CCPA opt-out.”

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The claim is consistently reported across multiple cross-reference sources, stating that FCCDCF is for the Google Funding Choices API, enabling consent gathering for GDPR and CCPA opt-out.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Cookie for Google Funding Choices API which allows for functionality specific to consent gathering for things like GDPR consent and CCPA opt-out
https://krdo.com/news/2026/04/10/motorless-morning-returns-t…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Cookie for Google Funding Choices API which allows for functionality specific to consent gathering for things like GDPR consent and CCPA opt-out.
https://krdo.com/news/2026/04/09/charges-filed-in-i-70-fatal…

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“1P_JAR are cookies set via embedded youtube-videos. They register anonymous statistical data on for example how many times the video is displayed and what settings are used for playback.”

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“A is Google uses this cookies to make advertising more engaging to users and more valuable to publishers and advertisers”

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“SOCS stores a user's state regarding their cookies choices”

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“cookies_accepted is a functionality cookie simply to verify that you have allowed us to set cookies on your machine”

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“ACCOUNT_CHOOSER is used to sign in with Google account.”

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“SMSV is used to sign in with Google account.”

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“gac measures user activity and ad campaign performance for advertisers”

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“AdID shows Google ads on non-Google sites and personalize ads based on user settings”

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“_Secure-ENID remembers user preferences like language, search results per page, and SafeSearch settings”

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“Secure-YEC serves a similar purpose for YouTube, including detecting and resolving problems”

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“CGIC improves search results delivery by autocompleting queries based on user input”

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“_Secure-YEC is used to detect spam, fraud, and abuse to protect advertisers and YouTube creators”

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“django_language is a cookie necessary for the use of the options and services of the website.”

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