What does fool.com track?
Before any consent, fool.com loaded 4 tracking companies and set 3 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 70% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.fool.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 3
- Third-party hosts
- 23
- Cookies in total
- 11
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 4 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
5 of the 15 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- YouTube10 requestsSocial media
www.youtube-nocookie.com, i.ytimg.com
- LaunchDarkly4 requestsAnalytics
app.launchdarkly.com, events.launchdarkly.com, clientstream.launchdarkly.com
- Convert2 requestsAnalytics
cdn-4.convertexperiments.com
- Cloudflare Web Analytics1 requestAnalytics
static.cloudflareinsights.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- foolcdn.com70 requestsUnclassified
g.foolcdn.com, optimize.foolcdn.com
- khonig.com3 requestsUnclassified
prod.khonig.com
- dianomi.com1 requestUnclassified
www.dianomi.com
- podtrac.com1 requestUnclassified
www.podtrac.com
- swap.fm1 requestUnclassified
tracking.swap.fm
- OneTrust11 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- UserWay3 requestsFunctional
cdn.userway.org, api.userway.org
- Sentry3 requestsFunctional
o1222.ingest.us.sentry.io
- Google3 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, www.google.com, jnn-pa.googleapis.com
- Braze2 requestsFunctional
sdk.iad-05.braze.com
- Font Awesome2 requestsContent delivery
use.fontawesome.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was ab.storage.deviceId.1fb61b1f-a3bb-4874-b48f-358535dd909f, from Braze, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _dd_s | Analytics | www.fool.com | 12 months |
| ab.storage.deviceId.1fb61b1f-a3bb-4874-b48f-358535dd909f | Analytics | fool.com | 13 months |
| ab.storage.sessionId.1fb61b1f-a3bb-4874-b48f-358535dd909f | Analytics | fool.com | 13 months |
| __Host-foolcom.csrf-token | Unclassified | www.fool.com | Session |
| __Secure-foolcom.callback-url | Unclassified | www.fool.com | Session |
| ph_phc_AX7UPqJR4NVNwr2XrVPmg9inywr3foWimnfGVEJa8… | Unclassified | fool.com | 12 months |
| Visitor | Unclassified | fool.com | 13 months |
| _conv_s | Functional | fool.com | Under a day |
| _conv_v | Functional | fool.com | 6 months |
| cf_clearance | Functional | fool.com | 12 months |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | fool.com | 12 months |
The page also wrote 19 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.