What does dw.com track?
dw.com loaded no advertising or analytics trackers before consent.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097 once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 0
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 4
- Cookies in total
- 10
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
2 of the 3 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
None.
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _pc_c | Unclassified | dw.com | 12 months |
| _pc_lr | Unclassified | dw.com | Session |
| _pc_st | Unclassified | dw.com | Session |
| _pc_t | Unclassified | dw.com | 12 months |
| __cmpcccx70166 | Functional | dw.com | 14 days |
| __cmpconsentx70166 | Functional | dw.com | 14 days |
| _pcid | Functional | dw.com | 13 months |
| _pctx | Functional | dw.com | 13 months |
| RT | Functional | www.dw.com | 7 days |
| pa_privacy | Necessary | dw.com | 13 months |
The page also wrote 9 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.