What does kickstarter.com track?
Before any consent, kickstarter.com 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.kickstarter.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 14
- Cookies in total
- 9
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 10 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Meta3 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
- Qualtrics4 requestsAnalytics
siteintercept.qualtrics.com, zncv1onfo8kuflf0n-kickstarter.siteintercept.qualtrics.com
- Optimizely2 requestsAnalytics
cdn.optimizely.com
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- sk-diagnostics.com2 requestsUnclassified
cdn.sk-diagnostics.com, ingest.sk-diagnostics.com
- featureassets.org1 requestUnclassified
featureassets.org
- siftscience.com1 requestUnclassified
cdn.siftscience.com
- Transcend4 requestsConsent banner
transcend-cdn.com
- Google3 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, fonts.googleapis.com
- Amazon Web Services64 requestsContent delivery
d15chbti7ht62o.cloudfront.net
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ksr_session | Unclassified | www.kickstarter.com | Session |
| ksr_consent | Unclassified | www.kickstarter.com | Session |
| last_page | Unclassified | www.kickstarter.com | Under a day |
| local_offset | Unclassified | www.kickstarter.com | Session |
| request_time | Unclassified | www.kickstarter.com | Session |
| vis | Unclassified | www.kickstarter.com | 13 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | kickstarter.com | Under a day |
| cf_clearance | Functional | kickstarter.com | 12 months |
| lang | Functional | www.kickstarter.com | Session |
The page also wrote 9 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.