What does jstor.org track?
Before any consent, jstor.org 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 www.jstor.org once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 7
- Cookies in total
- 7
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 2 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
1 of the 5 companies it contacted before consent were social media companies.
- Meta3 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- ithaka.org13 requestsUnclassified
static.ithaka.org
- OneTrust11 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Amazon Web Services1 requestContent delivery
xd-f1cf3d4fdb19408ea770fc6f80817dcb.ecs.us-east-1.on.aws
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _fbp, lasting about 3 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Advertising | jstor.org | 3 months |
| _fs_cd_cp_pRdRgnTnF68pCV2F | Unclassified | jstor.org | Under a day |
| _fs_ch_st_FSBmUei20MqUiJb9 | Unclassified | www.jstor.org | Under a day |
| ReferringRequestId | Unclassified | www.jstor.org | Session |
| UUID | Unclassified | www.jstor.org | 13 months |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | jstor.org | 12 months |
| csrftoken | Necessary | www.jstor.org | 12 months |
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.