What does dailymail.com track?
dailymail.com loaded no advertising or analytics trackers before consent.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.dailymail.com/home/index.html once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 0
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 4
- 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
1 of the 3 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
None.
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- dmgmediaprivacy.co.uk1 requestUnclassified
cmp.dmgmediaprivacy.co.uk
- Sophi (Globe and Mail)1 requestFunctional
cdn.sophi.io
- Akamai2 requestsContent delivery
s.go-mpulse.net, c.go-mpulse.net
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| gab | Unclassified | www.dailymail.com | Session |
| ak_bmsc | Functional | dailymail.com | Under a day |
| AKA_A2 | Functional | dailymail.com | Under a day |
| bm_sv | Functional | dailymail.com | Under a day |
| bm_lso | Necessary | www.dailymail.com | 30 days |
| bm_s | Necessary | dailymail.com | 31 days |
| bm_sc | Necessary | dailymail.com | Under a day |
| bm_so | Necessary | dailymail.com | 1 day |
The page also wrote 28 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.