What does he.net track?
Before any consent, he.net loaded 2 tracking companies and set 1 advertising or analytics cookie.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 56% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading he.net once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 4
- Cookies in total
- 3
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
1 of the 3 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Google Ads1 requestAdvertising
ad.doubleclick.net
- Google Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, ssl.google-analytics.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- 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 | he.net | 3 months |
| tracker_landing | Unclassified | he.net | Under a day |
| tracker_referrer | Unclassified | he.net | Under a day |
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.