What does apnews.com track?
Before any consent, apnews.com loaded 14 tracking companies and set 7 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 96% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading apnews.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 14
- Tracking cookies
- 7
- Third-party hosts
- 53
- Cookies in total
- 25
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 14 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
12 of the 32 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Freestar10 requestsAdvertising
a.pub.network, d.pub.network, c.pub.network
- Wunderkind (BounceX)8 requestsAdvertising
assets.bounceexchange.com
- Google Ads5 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, www.googletagservices.com, tpc.googlesyndication.com
- Yahoo2 requestsAdvertising
jadserve.postrelease.com
- Permutive1 requestAdvertising
507b28fb-2ef1-4c34-8bda-ba32030bb199.edge.permutive.app
- Amazon Advertising1 requestAdvertising
aax.amazon-adsystem.com
- Integral Ad Science1 requestAdvertising
dt.adsafeprotected.com
- Kameleoon4 requestsAnalytics
na-data.kameleoon.io, hj2bd2l1dv.kameleoon.io
- Google Analytics4 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- BlueConic3 requestsAnalytics
ap.blueconic.net, plugins.blueconic.net
- Scorecard Research (Comscore)3 requestsAnalytics
sb.scorecardresearch.com
- Parse.ly2 requestsAnalytics
experiments.parsely.com, tr-experiments.parsely.com
- Sailthru2 requestsAnalytics
ak.sail-horizon.com, api.sail-personalize.com
- Cloudflare Web Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
static.cloudflareinsights.com, cloudflareinsights.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- threenoodles.com10 requestsUnclassified
client.threenoodles.com, api.threenoodles.com, assets.threenoodles.com
- primis.tech3 requestsUnclassified
live.primis.tech
- usablenet.com3 requestsUnclassified
a40.usablenet.com
- dualping.com3 requestsUnclassified
dualping.com
- riverdrop.com3 requestsUnclassified
client.riverdrop.com
- dianomi.com2 requestsUnclassified
www.dianomi.com
- tru.am2 requestsUnclassified
tru.am
- ntv.io1 requestUnclassified
s.ntv.io
- wknd.ai1 requestUnclassified
tag.wknd.ai
- html-load.cc1 requestUnclassified
html-load.cc
- cdn-vitals.com1 requestUnclassified
edge.cdn-vitals.com
- merequartz.com1 requestUnclassified
merequartz.com
- OneTrust15 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- HUMAN Security (PerimeterX)8 requestsFunctional
collector-pxkceaxxxw.px-cloud.net, client.px-cloud.net, ift.px-cloud.net
- Google6 requestsFunctional
fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com, www.google.com, www.gstatic.com
- Viafoura5 requestsFunctional
tyrion.viafoura.co, cdn.viafoura.net, notifications.viafoura.co
- OneSignal3 requestsFunctional
cdn.onesignal.com, api.onesignal.com
- Piano1 requestFunctional
assets.zephr.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was BCSessionID, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCSessionID | Advertising | apcdp.apnews.com | 13 months |
| BCSessionID | Advertising | ap.blueconic.net (third party) | 13 months |
| BCSessionID | Advertising | apnews.com | Session |
| opt_out | Advertising | postrelease.com (third party) | 12 months |
| sailthru_content | Advertising | apnews.com | 12 months |
| sailthru_pageviews | Advertising | apnews.com | Under a day |
| sailthru_visitor | Advertising | apnews.com | 12 months |
| __cf_ob | Unclassified | apnews.com | Session |
| _awl | Unclassified | apnews.com | 13 months |
| blaize_session | Unclassified | apnews.com | 5 months |
| blaize_tracking_id | Unclassified | apnews.com | 13 months |
| kameleoonVisitorCode | Unclassified | apnews.com | 12 months |
| kameleoonVisitorCode | Unclassified | apnews.com | 12 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | onesignal.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | apnews.com | Under a day |
| _cfuvid | Functional | apnews.com | Session |
| AWSALB | Functional | apnews.com | 7 days |
| AWSALB | Functional | apcdp.apnews.com | 7 days |
| AWSALBCORS | Functional | apnews.com | 7 days |
| AWSALBCORS | Functional | ap.blueconic.net (third party) | 7 days |
| AWSALBCORS | Functional | apcdp.apnews.com | 7 days |
| cf_clearance | Functional | apnews.com | 12 months |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | apnews.com | 12 months |
| _pxvid | Necessary | apnews.com | 12 months |
| pxcts | Necessary | apnews.com | Session |
The page also wrote 14 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
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