What does frontiersin.org track?
Before any consent, frontiersin.org 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.frontiersin.org once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 3
- Third-party hosts
- 13
- Cookies in total
- 6
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
2 of the 7 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
googleads.g.doubleclick.net, static.doubleclick.net
- YouTube9 requestsSocial media
www.youtube.com, i.ytimg.com
- Google Analytics9 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
- New Relic7 requestsAnalytics
bam.nr-data.net, js-agent.newrelic.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- OneTrust11 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Google3 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, www.google.com, jnn-pa.googleapis.com
- Amazon Web Services2 requestsContent delivery
d2csxpduxe849s.cloudfront.net
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN, from YouTube, lasting about 6 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| __Secure-YNID | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | frontiersin.org | 14 days |
| YSC | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | Session |
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.