What does 20minutes.fr track?
Before any consent, 20minutes.fr loaded 1 tracking company and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 75% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more. That's right in line with other .fr sites we scanned: the typical one among 23 sites also loaded 1 tracking company.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.20minutes.fr once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 6
- Cookies in total
- 7
Consent banner
The page loaded Didomi, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 1 tracking company still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 4 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Pbstck9 requestsAdvertising
cdn-adm.pbstck.com, boot.pbstck.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- 20mn.fr27 requestsUnclassified
img.20mn.fr, static.20mn.fr
- ultimedia.com1 requestUnclassified
www.ultimedia.com
- Didomi5 requestsConsent banner
sdk.privacy-center.org
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| edgee | Unclassified | 20minutes.fr | 12 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | 20mn.fr (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | 20minutes.fr | Under a day |
| _pcid | Functional | www.20minutes.fr | 13 months |
| _pctx | Functional | www.20minutes.fr | 13 months |
| didomi_token | Functional | 20minutes.fr | 6 months |
| pa_privacy | Necessary | www.20minutes.fr | 13 months |
The page also wrote 3 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
Understanding this page
- How to see which cookies and trackers a website loads
A hands-on walkthrough for checking what a site sets before you've clicked anything, using Chrome and Firefox's built-in tools, plus how CookieTosser automates the same check every month.
- What counts as valid cookie consent in the EU
The rules that actually govern cookie banners — the ePrivacy Directive, the GDPR consent standard, the Planet49 ruling, the strictly-necessary exemption, and what "reject" has to offer compared with "accept.
- Consent management platforms explained
What a CMP banner is actually doing behind the scenes, how the IAB's TCF standard and Google's Consent Mode v2 fit in, and why a banner being present is no guarantee that nothing loads before you answer it.