What does lifehacker.com track?
Before any consent, lifehacker.com loaded 7 tracking companies and set 1 advertising or analytics cookie.
That's more tracking companies than 86% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading lifehacker.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 7
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 24
- Cookies in total
- 6
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 7 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 11 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- DoubleVerify5 requestsAdvertising
pub.doubleverify.com, vtrk.dv.tech
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Amazon Advertising3 requestsAdvertising
config.aps.amazon-adsystem.com, client.aps.amazon-adsystem.com, c.amazon-adsystem.com
- Wunderkind (BounceX)3 requestsAdvertising
assets.bounceexchange.com
- Google Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Chartbeat2 requestsAnalytics
static.chartbeat.com, ping.chartbeat.net
- Scorecard Research (Comscore)2 requestsAnalytics
sb.scorecardresearch.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- wknd.ai1 requestUnclassified
tag.wknd.ai
- OneTrust7 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- OpenWeb (Spot.IM)4 requestsFunctional
api-2-0.spot.im, launcher.spot.im, publisher-assets.spot.im
- Ziff Davis15 requestsContent delivery
cdn.ziffstatic.com, cdn.static.zdbb.net, metrics.rapidedge.io, zdbb.net
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was opt_out, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| opt_out | Advertising | lifehacker.com | 13 months |
| geoCC | Unclassified | lifehacker.com | Session |
| gtagSessionId | Unclassified | lifehacker.com | Under a day |
| zd_core_lialready | Unclassified | lifehacker.com | 15 days |
| __cf_bm | Functional | lifehacker.com | Under a day |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | lifehacker.com | 12 months |
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.