What does foodnetwork.com track?
Before any consent, foodnetwork.com loaded 3 tracking companies and set 1 advertising or analytics cookie.
That's more tracking companies than 58% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading foodnetwork.co.uk/?utm_medium=domestic&utm_source=foodnetwork.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 11
- Cookies in total
- 6
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, 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
3 of the 8 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Yahoo5 requestsAdvertising
jadserve.postrelease.com
- Permutive1 requestAdvertising
8512b548-2306-4976-a576-a880f2c35e4e.edge.permutive.app
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- tagdeliver.com4 requestsUnclassified
cdn.tagdeliver.com, uc.tagdeliver.com, log.tagdeliver.com
- whisk.com1 requestUnclassified
cdn.whisk.com
- ntv.io1 requestUnclassified
s.ntv.io
- OneTrust13 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Amazon Web Services22 requestsContent delivery
d2866mruotsy8w.cloudfront.net
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was opt_out, from Yahoo, lasting about 12 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| opt_out | Advertising | postrelease.com (third party) | 12 months |
| __ds_loc_country | Unclassified | foodnetwork.com | Session |
| __ds_loc_state | Unclassified | foodnetwork.com | Session |
| layout | Unclassified | www.foodnetwork.com | Session |
| AKA_A2 | Functional | foodnetwork.com | Under a day |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | foodnetwork.co.uk | 12 months |
The page also wrote 2 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.