What does about.me track?
Before any consent, about.me loaded 4 tracking companies and set 2 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 70% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading about.me once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 2
- Third-party hosts
- 14
- Cookies in total
- 8
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 8 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads2 requestsAdvertising
stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de
- Meta3 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
- Google Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Cloudflare Web Analytics1 requestAnalytics
static.cloudflareinsights.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- apigateway.co18 requestsUnclassified
cdn.apigateway.co, lexicon-prod.apigateway.co, conversation-prod.apigateway.co
- Google3 requestsFunctional
accounts.google.com, lh3.googleusercontent.com
- Bunny.net3 requestsContent delivery
aboutme.b-cdn.net
- Amazon Web Services1 requestContent delivery
dna8twue3dlxq.cloudfront.net
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _ga, from Google Analytics, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytics | about.me | 13 months |
| _ga_LE3EMX7RDC | Analytics | about.me | 13 months |
| _webchat_visit | Unclassified | about.me | 1 day |
| _webchat_visitor | Unclassified | about.me | 13 months |
| aboutme_anon_id | Unclassified | about.me | 12 months |
| session | Unclassified | about.me | Session |
| session.sig | Unclassified | about.me | Session |
| g_state | Functional | about.me | 6 months |
The page also wrote 2 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.