What does lemonde.fr track?
Before any consent, lemonde.fr loaded 2 tracking companies and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 56% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more. Among the 23 other .fr sites we scanned, the typical one loaded 1 tracking company — lemonde.fr loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.lemonde.fr once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 5
- Cookies in total
- 9
Consent banner
The page loaded IAB TCF (unidentified platform), 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
3 of the 5 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- lemde.fr29 requestsUnclassified
img.lemde.fr
- ebxcdn.com2 requestsUnclassified
applets.ebxcdn.com
- sirius.press1 requestUnclassified
campaign.services.forecast.sirius.press
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| atauthority | Unclassified | lemonde.fr | 13 months |
| atid | Unclassified | www.lemonde.fr | 13 months |
| atidx | Unclassified | www.lemonde.fr | 13 months |
| lead | Unclassified | lemonde.fr | 12 months |
| lmd_consent_tmp | Unclassified | lemonde.fr | 12 months |
| lmd_pa | Unclassified | lemonde.fr | 13 months |
| lmd_rand_id | Unclassified | lemonde.fr | 12 months |
| _pctx | Functional | lemonde.fr | 13 months |
| pa_privacy | Necessary | lemonde.fr | 13 months |
The page also wrote 1 key 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.