What does indiatimes.com track?
Before any consent, indiatimes.com loaded 18 tracking companies and set 8 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 97% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.indiatimes.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 18
- Tracking cookies
- 8
- Third-party hosts
- 76
- Cookies in total
- 23
Consent banner
The page loaded Google Funding Choices, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 18 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
16 of the 29 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Google Ads30 requestsAdvertising
pagead2.googlesyndication.com, securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, ep2.adtrafficquality.google, 40cacb473e21adcfd1e5fb67cc800d98.safeframe.googlesyndication.com
- ID524 requestsAdvertising
id5-sync.com, cdn.id5-sync.com, api.id5-sync.com, lbs.eu-1-id5-sync.com
- AdMaster8 requestsAdvertising
tracenep-eu.admaster.cc, gtracenep.admaster.cc, static.admaster.cc, imagesnep.admaster.cc
- Amazon Advertising6 requestsAdvertising
c.amazon-adsystem.com, aax-eu.amazon-adsystem.com, config.aps.amazon-adsystem.com, web-banner.ads.aps.amazon-adsystem.com
- Magnite5 requestsAdvertising
fastlane.rubiconproject.com, eus.rubiconproject.com, token.rubiconproject.com
- PubMatic4 requestsAdvertising
ads.pubmatic.com, ut.pubmatic.com
- Taboola4 requestsAdvertising
cdn.taboola.com, display.bidder.taboola.com, trc.taboola.com
- Criteo3 requestsAdvertising
gum.criteo.com, static.criteo.net
- OpenX3 requestsAdvertising
oa.openxcdn.net, rtb.openx.net, google-bidout-d.openx.net
- Index Exchange3 requestsAdvertising
htlb.casalemedia.com, js-sec.indexww.com, ssum-sec.casalemedia.com
- Yahoo2 requestsAdvertising
connectid.analytics.yahoo.com, ups.analytics.yahoo.com
- The Trade Desk2 requestsAdvertising
match.adsrvr.org
- Epsilon (Conversant)1 requestAdvertising
secure.cdn.fastclick.net
- RTB House1 requestAdvertising
invstatic101.creativecdn.com
- Lotame1 requestAdvertising
tags.crwdcntrl.net
- Teads1 requestAdvertising
a.teads.tv
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Scorecard Research (Comscore)2 requestsAnalytics
sb.scorecardresearch.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- publishstory.co25 requestsUnclassified
staticimg.publishstory.co
- growthrx.in3 requestsUnclassified
static.growthrx.in, api.growthrx.in
- toiimg.com2 requestsUnclassified
assets.toiimg.com
- im-apps.net2 requestsUnclassified
dmp.im-apps.net, sync6.im-apps.net
- timesofindia.com2 requestsUnclassified
prebid.timesofindia.com
- clmbtech.com1 requestUnclassified
ade.clmbtech.com
- mgaru.dev1 requestUnclassified
cdn.mgaru.dev
- ibeat-analytics.com1 requestUnclassified
api.ibeat-analytics.com
- mygaru.com1 requestUnclassified
ident.mygaru.com
- Google1 requestFunctional
fundingchoicesmessages.google.com
- jsDelivr1 requestContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _ga, from Google Analytics, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| __mggpc__ | Advertising | googlesyndication.com (third party) | 12 months |
| cto_bundle | Advertising | criteo.com (third party) | 13 months |
| cto_bundle | Advertising | indiatimes.com | 13 months |
| id5 | Advertising | id5-sync.com (third party) | 3 months |
| optout | Advertising | www.indiatimes.com | 12 months |
| uid | Advertising | criteo.com (third party) | 13 months |
| _ga | Analytics | indiatimes.com | 13 months |
| _ga_N0QYL21CPD | Analytics | indiatimes.com | 13 months |
| _grx | Unclassified | indiatimes.com | 13 months |
| _grxs | Unclassified | indiatimes.com | Under a day |
| _iibeat_session | Unclassified | www.indiatimes.com | 6 months |
| _iibeat_vt | Unclassified | www.indiatimes.com | 30 days |
| connectId | Unclassified | indiatimes.com | 12 months |
| geo_city | Unclassified | www.indiatimes.com | 12 months |
| geo_city | Unclassified | indiatimes.com | Under a day |
| geo_continent | Unclassified | www.indiatimes.com | 12 months |
| geo_continent | Unclassified | indiatimes.com | Under a day |
| geo_country | Unclassified | www.indiatimes.com | 12 months |
| geo_country | Unclassified | indiatimes.com | Under a day |
| geo_region | Unclassified | indiatimes.com | Under a day |
| geo_region_code | Unclassified | www.indiatimes.com | 12 months |
| ak_bmsc | Functional | indiatimes.com | Under a day |
| __eoi | Necessary | indiatimes.com | 6 months |
The page also wrote 22 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
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