What does bitdefender.com track?
Before any consent, bitdefender.com loaded 4 tracking companies and set 4 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 70% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.bitdefender.com/de-de once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 4
- Third-party hosts
- 12
- Cookies in total
- 12
Consent banner
The page loaded Usercentrics, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 4 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 5 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Microsoft Advertising4 requestsAdvertising
bat.bing.com, bat.bing.net
- Microsoft Clarity4 requestsAnalytics
k.clarity.ms, www.clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms
- Adobe1 requestAnalytics
adobedc.demdex.net
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Usercentrics16 requestsConsent banner
web.cmp.usercentrics.eu, v1.api.service.cmp.usercentrics.eu, uct.service.usercentrics.eu, app.usercentrics.eu
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was mbox, from Adobe, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMCV_0E920C0F53DA9E9B0A490D45%40AdobeOrg | Advertising | bitdefender.com | 13 months |
| demdex | Advertising | demdex.net (third party) | 6 months |
| mbox | Advertising | bitdefender.com | 13 months |
| mboxEdgeCluster | Analytics | bitdefender.com | Under a day |
| bd112 | Unclassified | bitdefender.com | 12 months |
| cf_zaraz_client | Unclassified | bitdefender.com | 12 months |
| cf-ipcountry | Unclassified | www.bitdefender.com | Under a day |
| fgpnoneBD | Unclassified | www.bitdefender.com | 1 day |
| kndctr_0E920C0F53DA9E9B0A490D45_AdobeOrg_cluster | Unclassified | bitdefender.com | Under a day |
| kndctr_0E920C0F53DA9E9B0A490D45_AdobeOrg… | Unclassified | bitdefender.com | 13 months |
| PHPSESSID | Functional | www.bitdefender.com | Session |
| affinity | Necessary | www.bitdefender.com | Session |
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.