What does cbsnews.com track?
Before any consent, cbsnews.com loaded 0 tracking companies and set 1 advertising or analytics cookie.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.cbsnews.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 0
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 13
- Cookies in total
- 8
Consent banner
The page loaded IAB TCF (unidentified platform), a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it.
Companies contacted before consent
6 of the 10 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
None.
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- cbsnewsstatic.com33 requestsUnclassified
assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com, assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com, assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com
- substackcdn.com2 requestsUnclassified
substackcdn.com
- headliner.link1 requestUnclassified
disco.headliner.link
- aswpsdkus.com1 requestUnclassified
aswpsdkus.com
- cbsi.com1 requestUnclassified
at.cbsi.com
- cbssports.com1 requestUnclassified
video-api-ipv4.cbssports.com
- Ketch13 requestsConsent banner
global.ketchcdn.com, cdn.ketchjs.com
- Google2 requestsFunctional
imasdk.googleapis.com
- Paramount3 requestsContent delivery
cdn.privacy.paramount.com
- Amazon Web Services1 requestContent delivery
substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _swb, from Demandbase, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _swb | Analytics | cbsnews.com | 13 months |
| fly_device | Unclassified | cbsnews.com | Under a day |
| fly_geo | Unclassified | cbsnews.com | Under a day |
| fly_js_debug | Unclassified | www.cbsnews.com | Session |
| usprivacy | Functional | cbsnews.com | 30 days |
| _ketch_consent_v1_ | Necessary | cbsnews.com | 13 months |
| _swb_consent_ | Necessary | cbsnews.com | 7 days |
| us_privacy | Necessary | cbsnews.com | 30 days |
The page also wrote 6 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.