What does character.ai track?
Before any consent, character.ai loaded 5 tracking companies and set 4 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 78% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading character.ai once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 5
- Tracking cookies
- 4
- Third-party hosts
- 19
- Cookies in total
- 10
Consent banner
The page loaded Google Funding Choices, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 5 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 9 companies it contacted before consent were social media companies.
- Google Ads4 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- Reddit7 requestsSocial media
alb.reddit.com, www.redditstatic.com, pixel-config.reddit.com
- Meta3 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
- Google Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
- Cloudflare Web Analytics1 requestAnalytics
static.cloudflareinsights.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- characterai.io2 requestsUnclassified
characterai.io
- prodregistryv2.org1 requestUnclassified
prodregistryv2.org
- Google38 requestsFunctional
fundingchoicesmessages.google.com, www.gstatic.com, www.google.com, fonts.gstatic.com
- Sentry3 requestsFunctional
o4504695552606208.ingest.sentry.io
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was FCCDCF, from Google, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Advertising | character.ai | 3 months |
| _rdt_uuid | Advertising | character.ai | 3 months |
| AMP_39bbdcaee6 | Analytics | character.ai | 12 months |
| FCCDCF | Analytics | character.ai | 13 months |
| __cfwaitingroom_cai | Unclassified | character.ai | Under a day |
| deployment-hash | Unclassified | character.ai | Under a day |
| deployment-target | Unclassified | character.ai | Under a day |
| web-next-auth | Unclassified | character.ai | 13 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | character.ai | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | characterai.io (third party) | Under a day |
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
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.