What does bleepingcomputer.com track?
Before any consent, bleepingcomputer.com loaded 3 tracking companies and set 2 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 58% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.bleepingcomputer.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 2
- Third-party hosts
- 17
- Cookies in total
- 5
Consent banner
The page loaded IAB TCF (unidentified platform), a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 3 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 7 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Freestar7 requestsAdvertising
a.pub.network, d.pub.network, c.pub.network
- Google Ads6 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de, stats.g.doubleclick.net
- Google Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- bleepstatic.com37 requestsUnclassified
www.bleepstatic.com
- cdn-vitals.com1 requestUnclassified
edge.cdn-vitals.com
- InMobi Choice14 requestsConsent banner
cmp.inmobi.com, api.cmp.inmobi.com, visit-server.inmobi-choice.io
- Google4 requestsFunctional
fonts.googleapis.com, www.google.com, fonts.gstatic.com, www.gstatic.com
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytics | bleepingcomputer.com | 13 months |
| _ga_GD465VRQLD | Analytics | bleepingcomputer.com | 13 months |
| session_id | Unclassified | bleepingcomputer.com | Session |
| PHPSESSID | Functional | www.bleepingcomputer.com | Session |
| usprivacy | Functional | www.bleepingcomputer.com | 13 months |
The page also wrote 4 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.