What does gamespot.com track?
Before any consent, gamespot.com loaded 8 tracking companies and set 1 advertising or analytics cookie.
That's more tracking companies than 89% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.gamespot.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 8
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 40
- Cookies in total
- 10
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 8 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
6 of the 17 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- ID524 requestsAdvertising
id5-sync.com, cdn.id5-sync.com, api.id5-sync.com, lbs.eu-1-id5-sync.com
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Amazon Advertising2 requestsAdvertising
c.amazon-adsystem.com
- GumGum1 requestAdvertising
g2.gumgum.com
- Google Analytics4 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Scorecard Research (Comscore)3 requestsAnalytics
sb.scorecardresearch.com
- Parse.ly2 requestsAnalytics
cdn.parsely.com, p1.parsely.com
- Cloudflare Web Analytics1 requestAnalytics
static.cloudflareinsights.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- nocookie.net4 requestsUnclassified
script.wikia.nocookie.net
- trackonomics.net2 requestsUnclassified
cdn-magiclinks.trackonomics.net
- fandom.com2 requestsUnclassified
services.fandom.com
- wikia-services.com2 requestsUnclassified
beacon.wikia-services.com
- ad.gt1 requestUnclassified
seg.ad.gt
- trx-hub.com1 requestUnclassified
trx-hub.com
- OneTrust13 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org
- WordPress.com2 requestsFunctional
stats.wp.com, pixel.wp.com
- Google1 requestFunctional
fundingchoicesmessages.google.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was id5, from ID5, lasting about 3 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| id5 | Advertising | id5-sync.com (third party) | 3 months |
| _scor_uid | Unclassified | gamespot.com | 13 months |
| fanid_expiry | Unclassified | www.gamespot.com | 1 day |
| Geo | Unclassified | gamespot.com | Session |
| __cf_bm | Functional | services.fandom.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | gamespot.com | Under a day |
| _parsely_session | Functional | gamespot.com | Under a day |
| _parsely_visitor | Functional | gamespot.com | 13 months |
| cf_clearance | Functional | gamespot.com | 12 months |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | gamespot.com | 12 months |
The page also wrote 8 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.