What does foursquare.com track?
Before any consent, foursquare.com loaded 4 tracking companies and set 1 advertising or analytics cookie.
That's more tracking companies than 70% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading foursquare.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 16
- Cookies in total
- 6
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 9 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads1 requestAdvertising
ad.doubleclick.net
- HubSpot5 requestsAnalytics
forms-eu1.hsforms.com, js-eu1.hsforms.net
- Parse.ly3 requestsAnalytics
cdn.parsely.com, api.parsely.com, p1.parsely.com
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- md-staging.com3 requestsUnclassified
foursquare-dev-wpvip.md-staging.com
- leandata.com3 requestsUnclassified
cdn.leandata.com, cdn1.leandata.com, app.leandata.com
- trakkr.ai2 requestsUnclassified
cdn.trakkr.ai, track.trakkr.ai
- WordPress.com2 requestsFunctional
stats.wp.com, pixel.wp.com
- Google1 requestFunctional
www.google.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _gcl_au, from Google, lasting about 3 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | Advertising | foursquare.com | 3 months |
| Unclassified | foursquare.com | Session | |
| __cf_bm | Functional | hsforms.net (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | hsforms.com (third party) | Under a day |
| _parsely_session | Functional | foursquare.com | Under a day |
| _parsely_visitor | Functional | foursquare.com | 13 months |
The page also wrote 1 key 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.