What does coindesk.com track?
Before any consent, coindesk.com loaded 7 tracking companies and set 4 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 86% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.coindesk.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 7
- Tracking cookies
- 4
- Third-party hosts
- 24
- Cookies in total
- 23
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 7 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 13 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Google Ads8 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- Microsoft Advertising5 requestsAdvertising
bat.bing.net, bat.bing.com
- Confiant3 requestsAdvertising
cdn.confiant-integrations.net
- Xandr (Microsoft)1 requestAdvertising
secure.adnxs.com
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
- Microsoft Clarity3 requestsAnalytics
www.clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms, h.clarity.ms
- Amplitude2 requestsAnalytics
cdn.amplitude.com, sr-client-cfg.amplitude.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- adrsbl.io6 requestsUnclassified
tag.adrsbl.io, v6.tag.adrsbl.io
- intergient.com3 requestsUnclassified
cdn.intergient.com
- html-load.cc2 requestsUnclassified
html-load.cc, stg.html-load.cc
- adradv.io1 requestUnclassified
api.adradv.io
- OneTrust3 requestsConsent banner
cdn-apac.onetrust.com, geolocation.onetrust.com
- JW Player15 requestsFunctional
ssl.p.jwpcdn.com, cdn.jwplayer.com, placement-prd.jwpltx.com, entitlements.jwplayer.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was AMP_b7a794d401, from Amplitude, lasting about 12 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Advertising | coindesk.com | 3 months |
| _gtmeec | Advertising | coindesk.com | 3 months |
| locale | Advertising | www.coindesk.com | Session |
| AMP_b7a794d401 | Analytics | www.coindesk.com | 12 months |
| ___adrsbl_nonce | Unclassified | coindesk.com | 13 months |
| amplitude_flags | Unclassified | www.coindesk.com | Under a day |
| COINDESK_PREFERENCES | Unclassified | www.coindesk.com | 3 months |
| COINDESK_SESSION | Unclassified | www.coindesk.com | 3 months |
| countryRegion | Unclassified | www.coindesk.com | Session |
| currencyCode | Unclassified | www.coindesk.com | Session |
| currencyName | Unclassified | www.coindesk.com | Session |
| currencySymbol | Unclassified | www.coindesk.com | Session |
| EXP_b7a794d401_identity | Unclassified | coindesk.com | 12 months |
| isPremium | Unclassified | www.coindesk.com | Session |
| oficialCountryName | Unclassified | www.coindesk.com | Session |
| rd_nonce | Unclassified | adrsbl.io (third party) | 13 months |
| rd_nonce | Unclassified | adradv.io (third party) | 13 months |
| subregion | Unclassified | www.coindesk.com | Session |
| __cf_bm | Functional | intergient.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | coindesk.com | Under a day |
| city | Functional | www.coindesk.com | Session |
| country | Functional | www.coindesk.com | Session |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | coindesk.com | 12 months |
The page also wrote 11 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.