What does au.com track?

Before any consent, au.com loaded 9 tracking companies and set 18 advertising or analytics cookies.

That's more tracking companies than 91% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.

Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.au.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan

Consent banner

No known consent management platform was detected on the page.

4 of the 16 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.

Supership
tg.socdm.com, sf.nazs.socdm.com, i.socdm.com, ssl.socdm.com
14 requestsAdvertising
Google Ads
ad.doubleclick.net, stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de
3 requestsAdvertising
D2C Inc
pp.d2-apps.net, cdn.d2-apps.net
3 requestsAdvertising
Yahoo Japan
s.yimg.jp, b99.yahoo.co.jp
2 requestsAdvertising
Meta
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
3 requestsSocial media
YouTube
www.youtube.com
2 requestsSocial media
Google Analytics
www.googletagmanager.com, www.google-analytics.com, region1.google-analytics.com, region1.analytics.google.com
20 requestsAnalytics
Macromill
img.macromill.com
2 requestsAnalytics
Contentsquare
t.contentsquare.net
1 requestAnalytics

nakanohito.jp
cs.nakanohito.jp, bs.nakanohito.jp
2 requestsUnclassified
kddi.com
www.notice.kddi.com
1 requestUnclassified
appspot.com
metrics-ga.an.r.appspot.com
1 requestUnclassified
Google
fonts.gstatic.com, www.google.com, fonts.googleapis.com
35 requestsFunctional
LivePerson
lpcdn.lpsnmedia.net, accdn.lpsnmedia.net, ause1.v.liveperson.net, lptag.liveperson.net
13 requestsFunctional
Apple
static.cdn-apple.com
1 requestFunctional
Cloudflare
cdnjs.cloudflare.com
1 requestContent delivery

The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _ga, from Google Analytics, lasting about 13 months.

Cookie	Purpose	Set by	Lasts
__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN	Advertising	youtube.com (third party)	6 months
_fbp	Advertising	au.com	3 months
_gcl_au	Advertising	au.com	3 months
c	Advertising	img.macromill.com (third party)	12 months
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	Advertising	youtube.com (third party)	6 months
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA	Advertising	youtube.com (third party)	6 months
_ga	Analytics	au.com	13 months
_ga_8LW7DLSMNS	Analytics	au.com	13 months
_ga_LQGLLT5T9S	Analytics	au.com	13 months
_ga_NEDL1XGXY7	Analytics	au.com	13 months
_gat_abtasty95237486	Analytics	au.com	Under a day
_gat_UA-39387335-246	Analytics	au.com	Under a day
_gid	Analytics	au.com	1 day
s_cc	Analytics	au.com	Session
s_fid	Analytics	au.com	13 months
s_ppn	Analytics	au.com	Under a day
s_ppv	Analytics	au.com	Session
s_visitd_au	Analytics	au.com	13 months
_yjsu_yjad	Unclassified	au.com	12 months
envoyConsistentHashing	Unclassified	ause1.v.liveperson.net (third party)	12 months
LPSID-16820676	Unclassified	au.com	Session
LPVID	Unclassified	au.com	12 months
s_nr_2	Unclassified	au.com	4 months
s_ppvl	Unclassified	au.com	Session
__Secure-YNID	Functional	youtube.com (third party)	6 months
YSC	Functional	youtube.com (third party)	Session
affinity	Necessary	www.au.com	Session

The page also wrote 6 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.

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