What does macrumors.com track?
Before any consent, macrumors.com loaded 6 tracking companies and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 83% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.macrumors.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 6
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 23
- Cookies in total
- 10
Consent banner
The page loaded consentmanager, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 6 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 10 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Raptive (AdThrive)11 requestsAdvertising
ads.adthrive.com, bd.raptivecdn.com, stormgate.production.raptive.com
- Skimlinks7 requestsAdvertising
t.skimresources.com, p.skimresources.com, s.skimresources.com, r.skimresources.com
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Meta59 requestsSocial media
static.cdninstagram.com, scontent.cdninstagram.com, www.instagram.com, graph.instagram.com
- YouTube7 requestsSocial media
i.ytimg.com, yt3.ggpht.com
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- onthe.io2 requestsUnclassified
cdn.onthe.io, tt.onthe.io
- trueanthem.com2 requestsUnclassified
static.trueanthem.com
- Consentmanager5 requestsConsent banner
eu-us-cdn.consentmanager.net, eu-us.consentmanager.net
- OneSignal4 requestsFunctional
cdn.onesignal.com, api.onesignal.com, onesignal.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| __io | Unclassified | www.macrumors.com | 12 months |
| __io_d | Unclassified | macrumors.com | Under a day |
| __io_lv | Unclassified | www.macrumors.com | 12 months |
| __io_nav_state43466 | Unclassified | macrumors.com | Under a day |
| __io_session_id | Unclassified | macrumors.com | Under a day |
| xf_mr_count | Unclassified | macrumors.com | Session |
| __cf_bm | Functional | onesignal.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cmpcccx86685 | Functional | macrumors.com | 3 days |
| __cmpconsentx86685 | Functional | macrumors.com | 3 days |
| mid | Functional | instagram.com (third party) | 13 months |
The page also wrote 7 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.