What does bostonglobe.com track?
Before any consent, bostonglobe.com loaded 10 tracking companies and set 14 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 92% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.bostonglobe.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 10
- Tracking cookies
- 14
- Third-party hosts
- 50
- Cookies in total
- 39
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 10 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
8 of the 22 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- ID523 requestsAdvertising
id5-sync.com, cdn.id5-sync.com, api.id5-sync.com, lbs.eu-1-id5-sync.com
- PubMatic3 requestsAdvertising
ads.pubmatic.com, ut.pubmatic.com
- Amazon Advertising1 requestAdvertising
c.amazon-adsystem.com
- 33Across1 requestAdvertising
lexicon.33across.com
- LiveRamp1 requestAdvertising
api.rlcdn.com
- Lotame1 requestAdvertising
id.crwdcntrl.net
- The Trade Desk1 requestAdvertising
match.adsrvr.org
- Criteo1 requestAdvertising
gum.criteo.com
- Meta3 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
- BlueConic6 requestsAnalytics
plugins.blueconic.net, cdn.blueconic.net
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- bostonglobemedia.com9 requestsUnclassified
b.bostonglobemedia.com
- aswpsdkus.com2 requestsUnclassified
aswpsdkus.com
- OneTrust16 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Sourcepoint3 requestsConsent banner
launchpad-wrapper.privacymanager.io, launchpad.privacymanager.io, geo.privacymanager.io
- Queryly3 requestsFunctional
www.queryly.com
- DataDome2 requestsFunctional
js.datadome.co, api-js.datadome.co
- Piano1 requestFunctional
cdn.tinypass.com
- Arc XP24 requestsContent delivery
bostonglobe-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com
- Cloudflare14 requestsContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.com
- Akamai2 requestsContent delivery
s.go-mpulse.net, c.go-mpulse.net
- jsDelivr1 requestContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
- Amazon Web Services1 requestContent delivery
2c-1138a2e087744ef69e662051fe044c44.ecs.us-west-1.on.aws
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was BCSessionID, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Advertising | bostonglobe.com | 3 months |
| _lr_env_src_ats | Advertising | www.bostonglobe.com | 30 days |
| _lr_retry_request | Advertising | www.bostonglobe.com | Under a day |
| _pubcid | Advertising | bostonglobe.com | 6 months |
| _pubcid_cst | Advertising | bostonglobe.com | 6 months |
| bc_tstgrp | Advertising | bostonglobe.com | 12 months |
| BCSessionID | Advertising | b.bostonglobemedia.com (third party) | 13 months |
| BCSessionID | Advertising | bostonglobe.com | 13 months |
| id5 | Advertising | id5-sync.com (third party) | 3 months |
| __pat | Analytics | bostonglobe.com | 30 days |
| __pvi | Analytics | bostonglobe.com | 1 day |
| s_cc | Analytics | bostonglobe.com | Session |
| s_fid | Analytics | bostonglobe.com | 13 months |
| s_vi | Analytics | bostonglobe.com | 13 months |
| BGPushAlertPopup | Unclassified | bostonglobe.com | 30 days |
| BGSessionID | Unclassified | bostonglobe.com | 13 months |
| ch_sid | Unclassified | bostonglobe.com | Under a day |
| pathUrl | Unclassified | bostonglobe.com | 13 months |
| pjs-unifiedid | Unclassified | www.bostonglobe.com | 2 months |
| pjs-unifiedid_cst | Unclassified | www.bostonglobe.com | 2 months |
| s_p6 | Unclassified | bostonglobe.com | Under a day |
| s_pv | Unclassified | bostonglobe.com | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | tinypass.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | auth-c2.bostonglobe.com | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | auth-vx.bostonglobe.com | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | bostonglobe.com | Under a day |
| __tbc | Functional | bostonglobe.com | 13 months |
| _pctx | Functional | bostonglobe.com | 13 months |
| _pprv | Functional | bostonglobe.com | 13 months |
| AKA_A2 | Functional | bostonglobe.com | Under a day |
| AWSALBCORS | Functional | b.bostonglobemedia.com (third party) | 7 days |
| LANG | Functional | bostonglobe.com | 30 days |
| LANG | Functional | www.bostonglobe.com | Session |
| LANG_CHANGED | Functional | www.bostonglobe.com | Session |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | bostonglobe.com | 12 months |
| RT | Functional | bostonglobe.com | 7 days |
| xbc | Functional | bostonglobe.com | 13 months |
| amzn_consent | Necessary | www.bostonglobe.com | 28 days |
| datadome | Necessary | bostonglobe.com | 12 months |
The page also wrote 17 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
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