What does bytedance.com track?
Before any consent, bytedance.com loaded 1 tracking company and set 1 advertising or analytics cookie.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 75% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.bytedance.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 5
- Cookies in total
- 2
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
1 of the 2 companies it contacted before consent were social media companies.
- TikTok8 requestsSocial media
sgali-mcs.byteoversea.com, p16.tiktokcdn.com, mon-va.byteoversea.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- ibytedtos.com41 requestsUnclassified
sf16-scmcdn-sg.ibytedtos.com, sf16-scmcdn-va.ibytedtos.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was MONITOR_WEB_ID, from TikTok, lasting about 3 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| MONITOR_WEB_ID | Advertising | www.bytedance.com | 3 months |
| _tea_utm_cache_3432 | Unclassified | www.bytedance.com | 7 days |
The page also wrote 3 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
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.