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optout.aboutads.info

Category: Misc

Scanned: Sep 27, 2026, 11:14 UTC · First seen: Sep 27, 2026 · Threat Engines: 1 / 91 · Times Scanned: 1
65 / 100 Trust Score Based on scan findings at the time of analysis
Moderate Risk
0 - High Risk50 - Moderate100 - No Threats
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optout.aboutads.info Misc · flagged by 1/91 engines
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Screenshot of optout.aboutads.info Captured Sep 27, 2026
https://optout.aboutads.info
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17 years (aboutads.info)
Not Ranked - This website does not appear in the Tranco top list
Flagged by 1 of 91 engines
✓ Valid (TLS)
Vercel, Inc
Walnut, United States
Vercel
Unknown
216.150.1.129
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Domain & WHOIS Information
Registrar Network Solutions, LLC
Registered October 4, 2009 (aboutads.info)
Expires October 4, 2027
Name Servers kinsley.ns.cloudflare.com
DNSSEC Unsigned
Hosting Vercel, Inc
This is a subdomain of aboutads.info. The WHOIS data above belongs to the parent domain, not to optout.aboutads.info. The actual creation date of this subdomain is unknown and could be much more recent than the parent.
Reputation & Threat Check 91 security engines checked
File Scan Summary Powered by Quttera Engine
1 file scanned
No threats
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Low Risk
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Medium Risk
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High Risk
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optout.aboutads.info/# 33.1 KB No threats
External Links & Domains
1
External Links
All Clean
0
Iframes
Clean
1
Referenced Domains
All Clean
0
Flagged Resources
None Detected
vercel.link/security-checkpoint Not flagged
vercel.link Not flagged
optout.aboutads.info Overview

Description of optout.aboutads.info

optout.aboutads.info is the "WebChoices" consumer opt-out tool operated by the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), a self-regulatory body for the online advertising industry. The page allows visitors to view a list of participating advertising and analytics companies and to opt out of interest-based advertising (IBA) tracking from those companies on the browser being used.

The domain is a subdomain of aboutads.info, which is the DAA's long-established consumer information site explaining ad-choices practices. It is not a commercial storefront but rather a privacy/preference-management utility that presents checkboxes for dozens of ad-tech companies (e.g., Adform, Adobe, Adstra) and a "submit choices" mechanism, along with an option to install a companion browser extension ("Protect My Choices") to persist opt-out selections.

Based on the domain name and observed content, this appears to be operated by or on behalf of the Digital Advertising Alliance, a long-running advertising industry coalition, rather than by an individual or unrelated third party.

Safety Assessment for optout.aboutads.info

At the time of this scan, 1 out of 91 security engines flagged this domain as malicious, while the remaining engines returned no detections. Malware scanning of the page's files indicated a clean result with no flagged files, and review of external links, referenced domains, and iframes found no flagged elements. Content-malice blacklist databases, including phishing and malware-focused threat lists, all returned clean results for this domain, and DNS-based blocklist checks also came back clean across five providers.

The single detection from one engine is a low-confidence, minority signal that is not corroborated by any other engine or by blacklist databases, and the domain itself has a long registration history (over 16 years), which is generally inconsistent with newly created malicious infrastructure. The site is hosted on established infrastructure (Vercel) with a valid SSL certificate. One outbound link and domain reference to "vercel.link" were observed, and this reference did not raise flags in the scan.

Based on available scan data, no significant threats were detected at the time of this scan, though the single-engine flag means visitors may wish to exercise their own discretion, particularly given the site's function of collecting opt-out preferences related to advertising tracking.

Technical Description

The site uses a valid SSL/TLS certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, expiring in December 2026, and is served over HTTPS. It is hosted on Vercel's infrastructure with an IP address located in Walnut, United States, and uses Cloudflare-managed nameservers, though DNSSEC is not enabled for the domain. The domain was registered in 2009 through Network Solutions, LLC, and is not set to expire until 2027, indicating a long-standing, established web property rather than newly provisioned infrastructure.

No hosting or configuration anomalies were identified beyond the lack of DNSSEC signing, which is a common and generally low-risk configuration choice for many legitimate sites.

HTTP Redirect Chain
429 https://optout.aboutads.info/
Website Insights
Not Ranked
Tranco Rank
Not in Top 1M
Visitors Unknown
Category: Misc
Rank History (30 days)
No rank data available
No cookies data available
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