What does flipboard.com track?
Before any consent, flipboard.com loaded 3 tracking companies and set 5 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 flipboard.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 5
- Third-party hosts
- 14
- Cookies in total
- 13
Consent banner
The page loaded Sourcepoint, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 3 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 6 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads6 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, stats.g.doubleclick.net, ad.doubleclick.net, www.google.de
- Google Analytics6 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, www.google-analytics.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Scorecard Research (Comscore)2 requestsAnalytics
sb.scorecardresearch.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- flip.it5 requestsUnclassified
flip.it
- Sourcepoint12 requestsConsent banner
cdn.privacy-mgmt.com
- Google14 requestsFunctional
www.google.com, www.gstatic.com, fonts.gstatic.com, fonts.googleapis.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _ga, from Google Analytics, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | Advertising | flipboard.com | 3 months |
| _ga | Analytics | flipboard.com | 13 months |
| _ga_F1YZDD86ZE | Analytics | flipboard.com | 13 months |
| _gat | Analytics | flipboard.com | Under a day |
| _gid | Analytics | flipboard.com | 1 day |
| _sp_su | Unclassified | flipboard.com | 12 months |
| activation_adjust_initial_deep_link | Unclassified | flipboard.com | Under a day |
| activation_from | Unclassified | flipboard.com | Under a day |
| activation_landing_url | Unclassified | flipboard.com | Under a day |
| ue_session | Unclassified | flipboard.com | Session |
| webu_session | Unclassified | flipboard.com | Session |
| webu_session.sig | Unclassified | flipboard.com | Session |
| _csrf | Necessary | flipboard.com | 13 months |
The page also wrote 5 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.