Adform Tracking Point

Adform Tracking Point (adform/serving-trackpoint)

operated by: Adform A/S (get company information on datarequests.org, go to tracker entry in the Exodus database)

Endpoint URLs

These are URLs or regexes of endpoints the tracker sends data to. We use these to determine which adapter to apply to a request. Some trackers use the same endpoint for several formats. In this case we use additional logic to match the adapter to the request, refer to the code for more information.
  • https://track.adform.net/Serving/TrackPoint

Decoding steps

Every tracking library has its own way of transmitting tracking data, often even several. They are regularly pretty convoluted, nested encoding schemes. Because of that, the adapter needs to decode the request information into a consistent format. We try to keep keys and paths intact, but the structure results from our decoding. All steps used in the decoding for this adapter are documented here.
  1. Parse the query string in the request path as a query string. Store that in the result for the query string.
  2. Get the property at JSONPath $ in the request headers. Store that in the result for the request headers.
  3. Get the cookie $. Store that in the result for the cookies.
1res.query = parseQueryString(query)
2res.header = header.$
3res.cookie = cookie.$

Observed data transmissions

This is data that we observed being transmitted by this tracker. Not every request contains all of this data. The context of the data describes where we found the data in the request, the path describes the location of the data in the decoded request. The examples are a selection of observed values.
PropertyContextPathExamples of observed values
App IDheaderx-requested-withde.hafas.android.db
Unique ID for the browserquery$[?(@property.match(/^eid_.*_1$/i))] Tracker documentation on this property
Consent statequerygdpr_consentCQFZtsAQFZtsAAFADBDEBIFgAP_AAAAAAAYgGaQAwAZADVAZoAAAAoJABgACBmgaADAAEDNBUAGAAIGaDIAMAAQM0HQAYAAgZoQgAwABAzQlABgACBmhSADAAEDNBEAGAAIGaFoAMAAQM0AA.YAAAAAAAAAAA
CQFgTkAQFgTkAAFADADEBIFgAPLAAELAAAYgIzQAgF5gRmAvOACAvMAA.YAAAAAAAAAAA
Unique device IDcookieuid Tracker documentation on this property6213660020132482831
5920874640361593022
1268638768572113293
5169778876454020857
query$[?(@property.match(/^eid_.*_2$/i))] Tracker documentation on this property
ID for the property (website/app)querypm Tracker documentation on this property648957
646062
3211625
254281
1872128
Refererheaderrefererhttps://www.bahn.de/media/view/tms/and/prod/mobile.html?timestamp_unix=1611704761
https://www.bahn.de/
https://www.congstar.de/
https://www.usemaxserver.de/
https://www.eis.de/
headerRefererhttps://www.bahn.de/media/view/tms/and/prod/mobile.html?timestamp_unix=1611704761
https://www.bahn.de/
https://www.congstar.de/
https://www.usemaxserver.de/
https://www.eis.de/
User agentheaderuser-agent Tracker documentation on this propertyMozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; sdk_gphone_x86_64_arm64 Build/RSR1.201013.001; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/83.0.4103.106 Mobile Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15E148
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) HeadlessChrome/129.0.6668.29 Safari/537.36
headerUser-Agent Tracker documentation on this propertyMozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; sdk_gphone_x86_64_arm64 Build/RSR1.201013.001; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/83.0.4103.106 Mobile Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15E148
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) HeadlessChrome/129.0.6668.29 Safari/537.36
headersec-ch-ua Tracker documentation on this property"HeadlessChrome";v="129", "Not=A?Brand";v="8", "Chromium";v="129"
Unique user IDquery$[?(@property.match(/^eid_.*_3$/i))] Tracker documentation on this propertyee5d946f-c60b-4e93-9b54-ad40d1e3eadc
Viewed pagequeryADFPageName Tracker documentation on this property%7BDB%20Navigator%7D%7C%7BAND_NAT_DEU_EN_ASK%7D%7C%7BAND_NAT_DEU_EN_ASK_Suche%7D
%7BDB%20Navigator%7D%7C%7BAND_NAT_DEU_EN_ASK%7D%7C%7BAND_NAT_DEU_EN_ASK_VerbundActionButton%7D
%7BDB%20Navigator%7D%7C%7BIOS_NAT_DEU_en_ASK%7D%7C%7BIOS_NAT_DEU_en_ASK_IOS_NAT_DEU_en_ASK_Suche%7D
ALL|RT|0|DocMorris_0
ALL|RT|2|DocMorris_2
querylochttps://www.bahn.de/media/view/tms/and/prod/mobile.html?timestamp_unix=1611704761
https://www.bahn.de/media/view/tms/ios/prod/mobile.html
https://www.congstar.de/
https://www.gelbe-liste.de/
https://ad.ad-srv.net/retarget?a=64038&version=1&redirected=1
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