What does bt.com track?
Before any consent, bt.com loaded 3 tracking companies and set 5 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.bt.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 5
- Third-party hosts
- 9
- Cookies in total
- 9
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, 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
3 of the 6 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Adobe5 requestsAnalytics
assets.adobedtm.com
- Dynatrace1 requestAnalytics
js-cdn.dynatrace.com
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- OneTrust12 requestsConsent banner
cdn-ukwest.onetrust.com, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Google9 requestsFunctional
www.gstatic.com, www.google.com, fonts.gstatic.com
- jQuery CDN1 requestContent delivery
code.jquery.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| dtCookie | Analytics | bt.com | Session |
| dtPC | Analytics | bt.com | Session |
| dtSa | Analytics | bt.com | Session |
| rxVisitor | Analytics | bt.com | Session |
| rxvt | Analytics | bt.com | Session |
| incap_ses_649_3141921 | Functional | bt.com | Session |
| nlbi_3141921 | Functional | bt.com | Session |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | bt.com | 12 months |
| visid_incap_3141921 | Functional | bt.com | 12 months |
The page also wrote 1 key 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.