What does allaboutcookies.org track?
Before any consent, allaboutcookies.org loaded 7 tracking companies and set 5 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 86% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading allaboutcookies.org once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 7
- Tracking cookies
- 5
- Third-party hosts
- 26
- Cookies in total
- 12
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 7 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
6 of the 14 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Aditude10 requestsAdvertising
raven-edge.aditude.io, raven-static.aditude.io, edge.aditude.io, geo.aditude.io
- Google Ads9 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de, stats.g.doubleclick.net, ad.doubleclick.net
- Amazon Advertising6 requestsAdvertising
web-banner.ads.aps.amazon-adsystem.com, c.amazon-adsystem.com, config.aps.amazon-adsystem.com
- ID52 requestsAdvertising
cdn.id5-sync.com, api.id5-sync.com
- Lotame1 requestAdvertising
tags.crwdcntrl.net
- Epsilon (Conversant)1 requestAdvertising
secure.cdn.fastclick.net
- Google Analytics4 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- htlbid.com2 requestsUnclassified
htlbid.com
- launchpotato.com1 requestUnclassified
web-vitals-library.launchpotato.com
- prebid.cloud1 requestUnclassified
geo-location.prebid.cloud
- OneTrust15 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Google1 requestFunctional
www.google.com
- Sentry1 requestFunctional
browser.sentry-cdn.com
- Amazon Web Services5 requestsContent delivery
dn0qt3r0xannq.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | Advertising | allaboutcookies.org | 3 months |
| sessionid | Advertising | allaboutcookies.org | 14 days |
| _ga | Analytics | allaboutcookies.org | 13 months |
| _ga_CH7VRHFMHP | Analytics | allaboutcookies.org | 13 months |
| _ga_LYCBDHD4P0 | Analytics | allaboutcookies.org | 13 months |
| aac_trk_sess | Unclassified | allaboutcookies.org | Under a day |
| aac_trk_user | Unclassified | allaboutcookies.org | 12 months |
| cw-test-20260325_gam-kv-test_10_10_80 | Unclassified | allaboutcookies.org | 30 days |
| __cf_bm | Functional | aditude.io (third party) | Under a day |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | allaboutcookies.org | 12 months |
| usprivacy | Functional | allaboutcookies.org | 12 months |
| datadome | Necessary | allaboutcookies.org | 12 months |
The page also wrote 16 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.