What does afternic.com track?
Before any consent, afternic.com loaded 0 tracking companies and set 1 advertising or analytics cookie.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.afternic.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 0
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 6
- Cookies in total
- 13
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 unclassified.
None.
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- wsimg.com39 requestsUnclassified
img6.wsimg.com, img1.wsimg.com
- secureserver.net2 requestsUnclassified
csp.secureserver.net
- godaddy.com1 requestUnclassified
www.godaddy.com
- Akamai2 requestsContent delivery
ds-aksb-a.akamaihd.net, i40e27400-ds-aksb-a.akamaihd.net
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was visitor, lasting about 12 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| visitor | Advertising | afternic.com | 12 months |
| _policy | Unclassified | afternic.com | 12 months |
| fb_sessiontraffic | Unclassified | afternic.com | Under a day |
| market | Unclassified | afternic.com | 12 months |
| OPTOUTMULTI | Unclassified | afternic.com | 12 months |
| pathway | Unclassified | afternic.com | Under a day |
| traceid | Unclassified | www.afternic.com | Under a day |
| _abck | Functional | afternic.com | 12 months |
| ak_bmsc | Functional | afternic.com | Under a day |
| bm_lso | Necessary | www.afternic.com | 30 days |
| bm_s | Necessary | afternic.com | 31 days |
| bm_so | Necessary | afternic.com | 1 day |
| bm_sz | Necessary | afternic.com | Under a day |
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.