What does aljazeera.com track?
Before any consent, aljazeera.com loaded 5 tracking companies and set 6 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 78% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.aljazeera.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 5
- Tracking cookies
- 6
- Third-party hosts
- 18
- Cookies in total
- 8
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 5 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 8 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Freestar5 requestsAdvertising
a.pub.network, d.pub.network, c.pub.network
- Google Ads4 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de
- Google Analytics4 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Amplitude3 requestsAnalytics
cdn.amplitude.com, api.lab.amplitude.com, api2.amplitude.com
- Chartbeat2 requestsAnalytics
static.chartbeat.com, ping.chartbeat.net
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- OneTrust9 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Brightcove10 requestsFunctional
cf-images.eu-west-1.prod.boltdns.net
- Google3 requestsFunctional
www.recaptcha.net, www.gstatic.com
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _cb | Analytics | aljazeera.com | 13 months |
| _cb_svref | Analytics | aljazeera.com | Under a day |
| _chartbeat2 | Analytics | aljazeera.com | 13 months |
| _ga | Analytics | aljazeera.com | 13 months |
| _ga_XN9JB9Q0M1 | Analytics | aljazeera.com | 13 months |
| AMP_9e2bdeb55f | Analytics | aljazeera.com | 12 months |
| _pbjs_id_optout | Unclassified | www.aljazeera.com | 12 months |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | aljazeera.com | 12 months |
The page also wrote 12 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.