What does abebooks.com track?
Before any consent, abebooks.com loaded 3 tracking companies and set 1 advertising or analytics cookie.
That's more tracking companies than 58% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.abebooks.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 5
- Cookies in total
- 7
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 4 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Amazon Advertising23 requestsAdvertising
assets.brightspot.abebooks.a2z.com, unagi.amazon.com
- Google Ads2 requestsAdvertising
googleads.g.doubleclick.net
- Microsoft Advertising1 requestAdvertising
bat.bing.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- abebookscdn.com30 requestsUnclassified
assets.prod.abebookscdn.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was MUID, from Microsoft, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUID | Advertising | bing.com (third party) | 13 months |
| abe_prefs | Unclassified | www.abebooks.com | 13 months |
| abe_vc | Unclassified | www.abebooks.com | 13 months |
| atfloaded | Unclassified | www.abebooks.com | 21 days |
| ql-session-id | Unclassified | www.abebooks.com | 13 months |
| test_cookie | Functional | doubleclick.net (third party) | Under a day |
| session-id | Necessary | www.abebooks.com | 13 months |
The page also wrote 8 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.