What does fanfiction.net track?
Before any consent, fanfiction.net loaded 3 tracking companies and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 58% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.fanfiction.net once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 10
- Cookies in total
- 4
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
1 of the 5 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Google Ads17 requestsAdvertising
pagead2.googlesyndication.com, ep2.adtrafficquality.google, ep1.adtrafficquality.google
- X (Twitter)5 requestsSocial media
platform.twitter.com, syndication.twitter.com
- Cloudflare Web Analytics1 requestAnalytics
static.cloudflareinsights.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Google10 requestsFunctional
fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com, ajax.googleapis.com
- Cloudflare1 requestContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | Functional | fanfiction.net | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | twitter.com (third party) | Under a day |
| cf_clearance | Functional | fanfiction.net | 12 months |
| __eoi | Necessary | fanfiction.net | 6 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.