What does independent.ie track?
Before any consent, independent.ie loaded 4 tracking companies and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 70% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.independent.ie once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 20
- Cookies in total
- 12
Consent banner
The page loaded Didomi, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 4 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
6 of the 12 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Pbstck5 requestsAdvertising
cdn.pbstck.com, intake.pbstck.com, boot.pbstck.com
- Google Ads4 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- Google Analytics5 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Cxense (Piano)2 requestsAnalytics
cdn.cxense.com, api.cxense.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- eu.com4 requestsUnclassified
cdn.kaching.eu.com, api.kaching.eu.com
- crimeworld.com2 requestsUnclassified
prod-img.crimeworld.com
- aswpsdkus.com2 requestsUnclassified
aswpsdkus.com
- agnoplay.com2 requestsUnclassified
player.agnoplay.com, static.agnoplay.com
- mediahuisgroup.com2 requestsUnclassified
content.mediahuisgroup.com, proteus-engine.mediahuisgroup.com
- mhtr.be2 requestsUnclassified
prod-inm.mhtr.be
- Didomi6 requestsConsent banner
sdk.privacy-center.org
- jsDelivr1 requestContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _mhtc_cId | Unclassified | independent.ie | 31 days |
| _mhtc_sId | Unclassified | independent.ie | Under a day |
| dsy-color-mode | Unclassified | www.independent.ie | 13 months |
| glitr | Unclassified | independent.ie | 12 months |
| mh_pw_se | Unclassified | www.independent.ie | 12 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | crimeworld.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | kaching.eu.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | independent.ie | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | mhtr.be (third party) | Under a day |
| _pctx | Functional | independent.ie | 13 months |
| cf_clearance | Functional | independent.ie | 12 months |
| didomi_dcs | Necessary | independent.ie | 12 months |
The page also wrote 12 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.