What does dmca.com track?
Before any consent, dmca.com loaded 2 tracking companies and set 6 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 56% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.dmca.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 6
- Third-party hosts
- 14
- Cookies in total
- 10
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 functional companies.
- Google Ads5 requestsAdvertising
www.google.de, ad.doubleclick.net, googleads.g.doubleclick.net, stats.g.doubleclick.net
- Google Analytics5 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | Advertising | dmca.com | 3 months |
| _ga | Analytics | dmca.com | 13 months |
| _ga_YQ34YLT6F8 | Analytics | dmca.com | 13 months |
| intercom-device-id-ypgdx31r | Analytics | dmca.com | 9 months |
| intercom-id-ypgdx31r | Analytics | dmca.com | 9 months |
| intercom-session-ypgdx31r | Analytics | dmca.com | 7 days |
| ARRAffinity | Functional | dmca.com | Session |
| ARRAffinitySameSite | Functional | dmca.com | Session |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Functional | www.dmca.com | Session |
| test_cookie | Functional | doubleclick.net (third party) | Under a day |
The page also wrote 2 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.