What does grindr.com track?
Before any consent, grindr.com loaded 1 tracking company and set 1 advertising or analytics cookie.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 75% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.grindr.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 10
- Cookies in total
- 7
Consent banner
The page loaded IAB TCF (unidentified platform), a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 1 tracking company still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 7 companies it contacted before consent were content delivery companies.
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Ketch7 requestsConsent banner
global.ketchcdn.com, cdn.ketchjs.com
- Google7 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, ajax.googleapis.com, fonts.googleapis.com
- Webflow45 requestsContent delivery
cdn.prod.website-files.com
- unpkg2 requestsContent delivery
unpkg.com
- jsDelivr2 requestsContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
- Amazon Web Services1 requestContent delivery
d3e54v103j8qbb.cloudfront.net
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _swb, from Demandbase, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _swb | Analytics | grindr.com | 13 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | grindr.com | Under a day |
| _cfuvid | Functional | www.grindr.com | Session |
| usprivacy | Functional | grindr.com | 30 days |
| _ketch_consent_v1_ | Necessary | grindr.com | 13 months |
| _swb_consent_ | Necessary | grindr.com | 7 days |
| us_privacy | Necessary | grindr.com | 30 days |
The page also wrote 6 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.