What does hbo.com track?
hbo.com loaded no advertising or analytics trackers before consent.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.hbo.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 0
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 6
- Cookies in total
- 5
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it.
Companies contacted before consent
1 of the 4 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
None.
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- wme-digital.com1 requestUnclassified
wme-gep-graphql-prod.wme-digital.com
- OneTrust11 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- AWS WAF5 requestsFunctional
908946ad4aae.7d431460.us-east-1.token.awswaf.com, 908946ad4aae.us-east-1.sdk.awswaf.com
- Amazon Web Services29 requestsContent delivery
d1mgq2hv32qvw2.cloudfront.net
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| geoData | Unclassified | hbo.com | Session |
| stateCode | Unclassified | hbo.com | Session |
| countryCode | Functional | hbo.com | Session |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | hbo.com | 12 months |
| aws-waf-token | Necessary | www.hbo.com | 4 days |
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.