What does aboutcookies.org track?
Before any consent, aboutcookies.org loaded 2 tracking companies and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 56% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.aboutcookies.org once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 5
- Cookies in total
- 5
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 2 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Analytics4 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, www.google-analytics.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Microsoft Azure Monitor2 requestsAnalytics
az416426.vo.msecnd.net, dc.services.visualstudio.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| shell#lang | Unclassified | www.aboutcookies.org | Session |
| ai_session | Functional | www.aboutcookies.org | Under a day |
| ai_user | Functional | www.aboutcookies.org | 12 months |
| ARRAffinity | Functional | www.aboutcookies.org | Session |
| ARRAffinitySameSite | Functional | www.aboutcookies.org | Session |
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.