What does faz.net track?
Before any consent, faz.net loaded 1 tracking company and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 75% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.faz.net/aktuell once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 10
- Cookies in total
- 4
Consent banner
The page loaded Sourcepoint, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 1 tracking company still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
5 of the 7 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Adobe8 requestsAnalytics
assets.adobedtm.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- cleverpush.com19 requestsUnclassified
static.cleverpush.com, api.cleverpush.com
- ebxcdn.com3 requestsUnclassified
applets.ebxcdn.com, trackerapi.ebxcdn.com
- atonato.de3 requestsUnclassified
atonato.de
- storifyme.xyz3 requestsUnclassified
storifyme.xyz, cdn.storifyme.xyz
- storifyme.com1 requestUnclassified
c77.cdn.storifyme.com
- jsDelivr2 requestsContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _sp_v1_data | Unclassified | www.faz.net | 30 days |
| _sp_v1_p | Unclassified | www.faz.net | 30 days |
| _sp_v1_ss | Unclassified | www.faz.net | 30 days |
| faz_consent_state | Unclassified | faz.net | 12 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.