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Tracking high winds & extreme fire danger

Krdo · · 1062 words · By Julia Donovan
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A powerful search engine that organizes and provides access to vast information on the internet.

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

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 31 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “AdID shows Google ads on non-Google sites and personalize ads based on user settings”
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Claim 2: “gcl helps advertisers determine user actions on their site after clicking an ad”
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Claim 3: “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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Multiple web search results confirm that the UULE cookie sends precise location information to Google's servers to tailor search results based on the user's location.
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web search NEUTRAL — Another cookie, 'UULE', sends precise location information from your browser to Google's servers so that Google can show you results that are relevant to your location.
https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies/embedded?hl…
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web search NEUTRAL — UULE sends precise location information from your browser to Googles servers so that Google can show you results that are relevant to your location. The use of this cookie depends on your browser sett…
https://cookielibrary.org/cookie_consent/uule/
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web search NEUTRAL — The UULE parameter is a small piece of code you can add to the end of a Google search URL. It tells Google to show you results as if you were searching from a specific location.
https://sacdm.com/how-to-use-the-uule-parameter-to-view-goog…
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Claim 4: “SID 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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Claim 5: “_Secure-ENID remembers user preferences like language, search results per page, and SafeSearch settings”
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Claim 6: “django_language is Cookie necessary for the use of the options and services of the website.”
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Claim 7: “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 cross-references consistently state that FPGCLDC helps advertisers track user actions after clicking on ads on the advertiser's site. This is reported consistently across the provided evidence.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — FPGCLDC cookie is used to help advertisers determine how many times users who click on their ads end up taking an action on their site 90 days
https://krdo.com/news/2026/04/16/rain-and-snow-tomorrow/
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cross reference SUPPORTS — FPGCLDC cookie is used to help advertisers determine how many times users who click on their ads end up taking an action on their site
https://krdo.com/news/2026/04/16/local-teacher-finalist-for-…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — FPGCLDC Used to help advertisers determine how many times users who click on their ads end up taking an action on their site 90 days
https://krdo.com/news/sports-news/2026/04/15/air-academy-lac…
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Claim 8: “SSID 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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Claim 9: “A powerful search engine that organizes and provides access to vast information on the internet.”
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All evidence consists of repeated cross-references from a single source ('Krdo') describing the general function of a search engine. No independent external sources (web search or Wikipedia) were found to corroborate this general definition.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — A powerful search engine that organizes and provides access to vast information on the internet.
https://krdo.com/weather/2026/04/12/tracking-fire-weather/
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cross reference SUPPORTS — A powerful search engine that organizes and provides access to vast information on the internet.
https://krdo.com/news/2026/04/20/faulty-drug-tests-forgotten…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — A powerful search engine that organizes and provides access to vast information on the internet.
https://krdo.com/news/2026/04/20/a-mass-shooting-near-a-nort…
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Claim 10: “SIDCC 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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Claim 11: “Secure-YEC serves a similar purpose for YouTube, including detecting and resolving problems”
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Claim 12: “_Secure-YEC is used to detect spam, fraud, and abuse to protect advertisers and YouTube creators”
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Claim 13: “ACCOUNT_CHOOSER is used to sign in with Google account.”
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Claim 14: “FCNEC 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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Claim 15: “CONSENT is Google cookie consent tracker”
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Multiple cross-references state that CONSENT functions as a Google cookie consent tracker. Wikipedia provides general context regarding consent, supporting the nature of the claim.
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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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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Consent occurs when one person voluntarily agrees to the proposal or desires of another. It is a term of common speech, with specific definitions used in such fields as law, medicine, research, and se…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consent
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In the United States, each state and territory sets the age of consent either by statute or the common law applies, and there are several federal statutes related to protecting minors from sexual pred…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_in_the_United_S…
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Claim 16: “cookies_accepted is simply to verify that you have allowed us to set cookies on your machine”
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Claim 17: “CGIC improves search results delivery by autocompleting queries based on user input”
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Claim 18: “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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The cross-reference defines the function using load balancing terminology. Web search results confirm the general concept of load balancing distributing traffic across multiple servers to optimize performance, supporting the claim's premise.
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web search NEUTRAL — Google cloud load balancer ensures high availability, realibility, and low latency with advance traffic management strategies and stabilized anycast.
https://sre.google/workbook/managing-load/
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web search NEUTRAL — And during its "lifetime," _gcl_aw is busy making notes and recording your ad interactions. The data it collects over this period helps Google Ads understand how users interacted with specific ads on …
https://captaincompliance.com/education/_gcl_aw-cookie/
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web search NEUTRAL — A load balancer distributes user traffic across multiple instances of your applications. By spreading the load, load balancing reduces the risk that your applications experience performance issues. Go…
https://docs.cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/load-balan…
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Claim 19: “A is Google uses this cookies to make advertising more engaging to users and more valuable to publishers and advertisers”
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Claim 20: “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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All evidence consists of repeated cross-references from a single source ('Krdo') detailing the function of this specific cookie header in a testing period. No independent external sources were found to corroborate this technical detail.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — receive-cookie-deprecation ensures browsers 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/news/2026/04/21/summer-strong-sitting-is-th…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — 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.
https://krdo.com/news/2026/04/20/a-mass-shooting-near-a-nort…
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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/news/2026/04/17/colorado-state-patrol-names…
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Claim 21: “OTZ is Aggregate analysis of website visitors”
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Claim 22: “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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All provided evidence, consisting of multiple cross-references, consistently state that HSID saves user preferences (like search results per page, SafeSearch) and adjusts Google Search ads.
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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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cross reference SUPPORTS — HSID Download 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.
https://krdo.com/news/2026/04/21/xcel-energy-plans-possible-…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — 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…
https://krdo.com/news/top-stories/2026/04/12/tracking-gusty-…
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Claim 23: “gac measures user activity and ad campaign performance for advertisers”
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Claim 24: “TAID is used to link your activity across devices if you've previously signed in to your Google Account on another device.”
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Web search results confirm that TAID is used to link activity across devices when a user signs into their Google Account on multiple devices. While Wikipedia provided irrelevant results, the web search provided direct confirmation.
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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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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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web search NEUTRAL — Change default cookie settings To override default cookie expiration and cookie update settings: In Admin, under Data collection and modification, click Data streams. Note: The previous link opens to …
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/11397207?hl=en
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Claim 25: “SMSV is used to sign in with Google account.”
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Claim 26: “g_enabled_idps is used for Google Single Sign On”
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Multiple cross-references confirm that the g_enabled_idps cookie is used for Google Single Sign On. Additionally, Wikipedia provides general context about Google Accounts being used for 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 — 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 — Google Play Services is a proprietary software package produced by Google for installation on Android devices. It consists of background services and libraries for use by mobile apps running on the de…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play_Services
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Claim 27: “APISID 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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Claim 28: “DSID identifies signed-in users on non-Google sites to respect ad personalization settings”
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Claim 29: “SOCS stores a user's state regarding their cookies choices”
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Claim 30: “consents on user behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement on the website.”
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Multiple cross-references consistently state that the _dcid cookie collects user behavior across multiple websites to optimize ad relevance. This pattern of reporting is consistent across the evidence provided.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Collects information on user behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement on the website.
https://krdo.com/weather/2026/04/12/tracking-fire-weather/
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cross reference SUPPORTS — _dcid collects information on user behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement on the website.
https://krdo.com/news/top-stories/2026/04/17/shooting-argume…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — _dcid collects information on user behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement on the website.
https://krdo.com/news/high-country-adventures/2026/04/17/hig…
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Claim 31: “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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info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.