What does boston.com track?
Before any consent, boston.com loaded 11 tracking companies and set 11 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 94% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.boston.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 11
- Tracking cookies
- 11
- Third-party hosts
- 40
- Cookies in total
- 27
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 11 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
5 of the 19 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads10 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, googleads.g.doubleclick.net, ad.doubleclick.net, 11164343.fls.doubleclick.net
- Freestar6 requestsAdvertising
a.pub.network, d.pub.network, c.pub.network
- Teads1 requestAdvertising
p.teads.tv
- Amazon Advertising1 requestAdvertising
c.amazon-adsystem.com
- YouTube11 requestsSocial media
www.youtube.com, i.ytimg.com
- Meta5 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
- Adobe11 requestsAnalytics
use.typekit.net, p.typekit.net
- Cxense (Piano)4 requestsAnalytics
cdn.cxense.com, id.cxense.com, comcluster.cxense.com
- New Relic3 requestsAnalytics
bam.nr-data.net, js-agent.newrelic.com
- Google Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
- Scorecard Research (Comscore)2 requestsAnalytics
sb.scorecardresearch.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- o0bc.com61 requestsUnclassified
bdc2020.o0bc.com
- ada.support14 requestsUnclassified
bostondotcom.ada.support, static.ada.support, rollout.ada.support
- bostonglobe.com2 requestsUnclassified
apps.bostonglobe.com
- aswpsdkus.com2 requestsUnclassified
aswpsdkus.com
- cdn-vitals.com1 requestUnclassified
edge.cdn-vitals.com
- OneTrust15 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Google13 requestsFunctional
fundingchoicesmessages.google.com, fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com, www.google.com
- Amazon Web Services2 requestsContent delivery
xd-f1cf3d4fdb19408ea770fc6f80817dcb.ecs.us-east-1.on.aws, 2c-1138a2e087744ef69e662051fe044c44.ecs.us-west-1.on.aws
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was cX_G, from Piano, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| _fbp | Advertising | boston.com | 3 months |
| _gcl_au | Advertising | boston.com | 3 months |
| cX_G | Advertising | boston.com | 13 months |
| gckp | Advertising | cxense.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 |
| __pat | Analytics | boston.com | 30 days |
| __pvi | Analytics | boston.com | 1 day |
| cX_P | Analytics | boston.com | 13 months |
| FCCDCF | Analytics | boston.com | 13 months |
| s_pv | Unclassified | boston.com | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | boston.com | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | o0bc.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | bostonglobe.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | auth.boston.com | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | auth-c2.boston.com | Under a day |
| __pid | Functional | boston.com | 30 days |
| __Secure-YNID | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| __tbc | Functional | boston.com | 13 months |
| _pctx | Functional | boston.com | 13 months |
| _pprv | Functional | boston.com | 13 months |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | boston.com | 12 months |
| test_cookie | Functional | doubleclick.net (third party) | Under a day |
| xbc | Functional | boston.com | 13 months |
| YSC | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | Session |
| amzn_consent | Necessary | www.boston.com | 28 days |
The page also wrote 16 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
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- What counts as valid cookie consent in the EU
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- 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.