What does bluestacks.com track?
Before any consent, bluestacks.com loaded 2 tracking companies and set 2 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.bluestacks.com/de/index.html once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 2
- Third-party hosts
- 9
- Cookies in total
- 9
Consent banner
The page loaded IAB TCF (unidentified platform), a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 2 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
1 of the 5 companies it contacted before consent were social media companies.
- Meta3 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- InMobi Choice14 requestsConsent banner
cmp.inmobi.com, visit-server.inmobi-choice.io, api.cmp.inmobi.com
- Google9 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, fonts.googleapis.com
- jsDelivr1 requestContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _fbp, lasting about 3 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Advertising | bluestacks.com | 3 months |
| utm_campaign | Analytics | www.bluestacks.com | 7 days |
| bs_unique_id | Unclassified | bluestacks.com | 13 months |
| experiment_version | Unclassified | www.bluestacks.com | 7 days |
| first_landing_page | Unclassified | www.bluestacks.com | 1 day |
| preferred_lang | Unclassified | bluestacks.com | 13 months |
| referrer | Unclassified | www.bluestacks.com | 1 day |
| v_country | Unclassified | bluestacks.com | 14 days |
| usprivacy | Functional | www.bluestacks.com | 13 months |
The page also wrote 7 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.