What does engadget.com track?
Before any consent, engadget.com loaded 5 tracking companies and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 78% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.engadget.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 5
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 27
- Cookies in total
- 3
Consent banner
The page loaded consentmanager, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 5 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 12 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Raptive (AdThrive)11 requestsAdvertising
ads.adthrive.com, stormgate.production.raptive.com, bd.raptivecdn.com
- Google Ads10 requestsAdvertising
ad.doubleclick.net, securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Blockthrough6 requestsAdvertising
btloader.com, cdn.btloader.com, cdn.api.btloader.com
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Marfeel1 requestAnalytics
sdk.mrf.io
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- ad-delivery.net11 requestsUnclassified
ad-delivery.net
- dns-finder.com2 requestsUnclassified
ab.dns-finder.com
- newsroom.bi1 requestUnclassified
events.newsroom.bi
- Consentmanager7 requestsConsent banner
eu-us.consentmanager.net, eu-us-cdn.consentmanager.net
- OpenWeb (Spot.IM)28 requestsFunctional
static-cdn.spot.im, api-2-0.spot.im, launcher.spot.im, publisher-assets.spot.im
- Google12 requestsFunctional
www.gstatic.com, news.google.com, play.google.com, fonts.gstatic.com
- JW Player1 requestFunctional
cdn.jwplayer.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| __cmpcc | Functional | www.engadget.com | 13 months |
| __cmpcccx171224 | Functional | engadget.com | 3 days |
| __cmpconsentx171224 | Functional | engadget.com | 3 days |
The page also wrote 8 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.