What does europa.eu track?
Before any consent, europa.eu loaded 0 tracking companies and set 2 advertising or analytics cookies.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading european-union.europa.eu/index_en once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 0
- Tracking cookies
- 2
- Third-party hosts
- 0
- Cookies in total
- 3
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
None. Every request stayed on europa.eu.
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _pk_id.c9513597-70e6-4b84-80c5-36f9dddf8c7c.9f33, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _pk_id.c9513597-70e6-4b84-80c5-36f9dddf8c7c.9f33 | Analytics | european-union.europa.eu | 13 months |
| _pk_ses.c9513597-70e6-4b84-80c5-36f9dddf8c7c.9f33 | Analytics | european-union.europa.eu | Under a day |
| cck1 | Unclassified | european-union.europa.eu | 6 months |
Understanding this page
- How to see which cookies and trackers a website loads
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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.
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