What does artstation.com track?
Before any consent, artstation.com loaded 2 tracking companies and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 56% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.artstation.com/?sort_by=community&dimension=all once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 15
- Cookies in total
- 7
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 9 companies it contacted before consent were functional companies.
- Meta3 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net
- Pinterest3 requestsSocial media
assets.pinterest.com, log.pinterest.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- unrealengine.com5 requestsUnclassified
components.unrealengine.com
- epicgames.com4 requestsUnclassified
tracking.epicgames.com, talon-website-prod.ecosec.on.epicgames.com
- gravatar.com1 requestUnclassified
www.gravatar.com
- Stripe7 requestsFunctional
js.stripe.com, m.stripe.network, m.stripe.com
- Google2 requestsFunctional
fonts.googleapis.com, apis.google.com
- hCaptcha2 requestsFunctional
js.hcaptcha.com, 0086eaa6e13f.w.hcaptcha.com
- WordPress.com1 requestFunctional
i0.wp.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRIVATE-CSRF-TOKEN | Unclassified | www.artstation.com | Session |
| __cf_bm | Functional | artstation.com | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | hcaptcha.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | ecosec.on.epicgames.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __stripe_mid | Functional | www.artstation.com | 12 months |
| __stripe_sid | Functional | www.artstation.com | Under a day |
| m | Functional | m.stripe.com (third party) | 13 months |
The page also wrote 3 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.