What does digg.com track?
Before any consent, digg.com loaded 1 tracking company and set 2 advertising or analytics cookies.
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 digg.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 2
- Third-party hosts
- 6
- Cookies in total
- 4
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 5 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
region1.google-analytics.com, www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _ga, from Google Analytics, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytics | digg.com | 13 months |
| _ga_RYXZ3KTP3M | Analytics | digg.com | 13 months |
| digg_last_session_at | Unclassified | digg.com | 30 days |
| ph_phc_pmZvub6axyruHPGPs7CQb3ajyAHKRPt7h7zErRwah… | Unclassified | digg.com | 12 months |
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.