What does acast.com track?
Before any consent, acast.com loaded 6 tracking companies and set 3 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 83% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.acast.com/en-gb once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 6
- Tracking cookies
- 3
- Third-party hosts
- 25
- Cookies in total
- 11
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 6 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
5 of the 17 companies it contacted before consent were content delivery companies.
- Google Ads2 requestsAdvertising
pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- LinkedIn4 requestsSocial media
snap.licdn.com, px.ads.linkedin.com
- Meta3 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
- Mixpanel2 requestsAnalytics
cdn.mxpnl.com, api-eu.mixpanel.com
- Google Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
- Hotjar2 requestsAnalytics
static.hotjar.com, script.hotjar.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- explorefledge.com2 requestsUnclassified
collect.explorefledge.com
- paapi.ai1 requestUnclassified
tags.paapi.ai
- wdfl.co1 requestUnclassified
r.wdfl.co
- OneTrust17 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Google25 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, ajax.googleapis.com, fonts.googleapis.com
- Vimeo4 requestsFunctional
player.vimeo.com
- Webflow43 requestsContent delivery
cdn.prod.website-files.com
- Amazon Web Services2 requestsContent delivery
d3e54v103j8qbb.cloudfront.net, 7s-d309b5b93ece4e188e0aa4e9c7906f0f.ecs.us-west-1.on.aws
- jsDelivr1 requestContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
- Cloudflare1 requestContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.com
- Bunny.net1 requestContent delivery
acast.b-cdn.net
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was bcookie, from LinkedIn, lasting about 12 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Advertising | acast.com | 3 months |
| bcookie | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 12 months |
| lidc | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 1 day |
| paapi | Unclassified | www.acast.com | 12 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | vimeo.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | Under a day |
| _cfuvid | Functional | www.acast.com | Session |
| _hjSession_252150 | Functional | acast.com | Under a day |
| _hjSessionUser_252150 | Functional | acast.com | 12 months |
| li_gc | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | 6 months |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | acast.com | 12 months |
The page also wrote 7 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.