What does huffpost.com track?
Before any consent, huffpost.com loaded 8 tracking companies and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 89% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.huffpost.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 8
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 38
- Cookies in total
- 11
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 16 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Outbrain26 requestsAdvertising
widgets.outbrain.com, mv.outbrain.com, widgets.outbrainimg.com, mcdp-nydc1.outbrain.com
- Connatix8 requestsAdvertising
cds.connatix.com, capi.connatix.com, pl.connatix.com
- DoubleVerify4 requestsAdvertising
pub.doubleverify.com, vtrk.dv.tech
- Ad Lightning3 requestsAdvertising
tagan.adlightning.com
- Amazon Advertising2 requestsAdvertising
config.aps.amazon-adsystem.com, client.aps.amazon-adsystem.com
- Browsi1 requestAdvertising
cdn.browsiprod.com
- Scorecard Research (Comscore)3 requestsAnalytics
sb.scorecardresearch.com
- Adobe2 requestsAnalytics
use.typekit.net, p.typekit.net
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- huffingtonpost.com37 requestsUnclassified
img.huffingtonpost.com
- thecontentserver.com11 requestsUnclassified
cds.thecontentserver.com, capi.thecontentserver.com, pl.thecontentserver.com, cd.thecontentserver.com
- buzzfeed.com6 requestsUnclassified
pixiedust.buzzfeed.com, abeagle-public.buzzfeed.com
- insiad.com4 requestsUnclassified
events.insiad.com, dd.insiad.com
- binsiad.com1 requestUnclassified
cdn.binsiad.com
- html-load.cc1 requestUnclassified
html-load.cc
- OneTrust15 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Google7 requestsFunctional
fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _scor_uid | Unclassified | huffpost.com | 13 months |
| bf_visit | Unclassified | huffpost.com | 13 months |
| bf-consent-optout | Unclassified | www.huffpost.com | 1 day |
| bf-geo-country | Unclassified | huffpost.com | 1 day |
| bf-geo-country | Unclassified | www.huffpost.com | 1 day |
| bf-geo-region | Unclassified | huffpost.com | 1 day |
| bf-geo-region | Unclassified | www.huffpost.com | 1 day |
| bf-xdomain-session-uuid | Unclassified | huffpost.com | Under a day |
| gdpr | Functional | huffpost.com | 14 days |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | huffpost.com | 12 months |
| usprivacy | Functional | www.huffpost.com | 12 months |
The page also wrote 15 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.