What does abcnews.com track?
Before any consent, abcnews.com loaded 11 tracking companies and set 13 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 94% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading abcnews.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 11
- Tracking cookies
- 13
- Third-party hosts
- 44
- Cookies in total
- 25
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
8 of the 22 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Google Ads8 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, ad.doubleclick.net, www.googletagservices.com, ep1.adtrafficquality.google
- Taboola4 requestsAdvertising
cdn.taboola.com, pm-widget.taboola.com, trc.taboola.com
- Criteo2 requestsAdvertising
gum.criteo.com
- eXelate1 requestAdvertising
loadus.exelator.com
- Nielsen7 requestsAnalytics
cdn-gl.imrworldwide.com, secure-dcr.imrworldwide.com, o76vdnk2akyhwkwd4wx2rt1hblc3j1790936792.nuid.imrworldwide.com, global.imrworldwide.com
- New Relic4 requestsAnalytics
bam.nr-data.net, js-agent.newrelic.com
- Chartbeat4 requestsAnalytics
static.chartbeat.com, ping.chartbeat.net, mab.chartbeat.com
- Conviva4 requestsAnalytics
27f19c7c68e3eadf7756fb7efdb661dd8909acf9.ipv4.cws.conviva.com, 27f19c7c68e3eadf7756fb7efdb661dd8909acf9.ipv6.cws.conviva.com
- Scorecard Research (Comscore)3 requestsAnalytics
sb.scorecardresearch.com
- Google Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
- Adobe1 requestAnalytics
disney.demdex.net
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- abcnewsfe.com109 requestsUnclassified
i.abcnewsfe.com
- bamgrid.com9 requestsUnclassified
pcs.bamgrid.com, hiveplayer-static.bamgrid.com, client-sdk-configs.bamgrid.com, disney-entertainment.api.edge.bamgrid.com
- abcotvs.net3 requestsUnclassified
assets-cdn.abcotvs.net
- go.com3 requestsUnclassified
sw88.go.com, fastcast.semfs.engsvc.go.com
- fn-pz.com2 requestsUnclassified
vision.fn-pz.com
- webcontentassessor.com1 requestUnclassified
scripts.webcontentassessor.com
- espncdn.com1 requestUnclassified
secure.espncdn.com
- thrtle.com1 requestUnclassified
thrtle.com
- Braze3 requestsFunctional
sdk.iad-01.braze.com, js.appboycdn.com
- Google2 requestsFunctional
www.google.com
- Disney11 requestsContent delivery
dcf.espn.com, pinpoint.espn.com, secure.espn.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was AMCV_C7A21CFE532E6E920A490D45%40AdobeOrg, from Adobe, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | Advertising | abcnews.com | 3 months |
| AMCV_C7A21CFE532E6E920A490D45%40AdobeOrg | Advertising | abcnews.com | 13 months |
| AMCVS_C7A21CFE532E6E920A490D45%40AdobeOrg | Advertising | abcnews.com | Session |
| cto_bundle | Advertising | criteo.com (third party) | 13 months |
| IMRID | Advertising | imrworldwide.com (third party) | 13 months |
| uid | Advertising | criteo.com (third party) | 13 months |
| _cb | Analytics | abcnews.com | 13 months |
| _cb_svref | Analytics | abcnews.com | Under a day |
| _chartbeat2 | Analytics | abcnews.com | 13 months |
| ab.storage.deviceId.0ca73e32-3849-46c5-a406-e001c45b799e | Analytics | abcnews.com | 13 months |
| ab.storage.sessionId.0ca73e32-3849-46c5-a406-e001c45b799e | Analytics | abcnews.com | 13 months |
| nol_fpid | Analytics | abcnews.com | 6 months |
| s_cc | Analytics | abcnews.com | Session |
| __fitt-sess-device.prod | Unclassified | abcnews.com | 30 days |
| _dcf | Unclassified | abcnews.com | Session |
| _nr | Unclassified | abcnews.com | Session |
| s_ensCDS | Unclassified | abcnews.com | Session |
| s_ensNR | Unclassified | abcnews.com | 30 days |
| s_ensRegion | Unclassified | abcnews.com | Session |
| userab_1 | Unclassified | abcnews.com | Under a day |
| ab.storage.userId.0ca73e32-3849-46c5-a406-e001c45b799e | Functional | abcnews.com | 13 months |
| country | Functional | abcnews.com | 1 day |
| JSESSIONID | Functional | nr-data.net (third party) | Session |
| region | Functional | abcnews.com | 7 days |
| SWID | Functional | abcnews.com | 13 months |
The page also wrote 48 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
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