What does mail.com track?
Before any consent, mail.com loaded 1 tracking company and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 75% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.mail.com/consentpage once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 5
- Cookies in total
- 7
Consent banner
The page loaded IAB TCF (unidentified platform), a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 1 tracking company still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 4 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- uicdn.com29 requestsUnclassified
s.uicdn.com
- ui-portal.de9 requestsUnclassified
js.ui-portal.de, img.ui-portal.de
- mam.dev1 requestUnclassified
trace-proxy.mam.dev
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _externalAdId | Unclassified | mail.com | Under a day |
| _originalReferrer | Unclassified | mail.com | Under a day |
| NGUserID | Unclassified | mail.com | 12 months |
| wa | Unclassified | mail.com | 12 months |
| euconsent-bypass | Functional | mail.com | Under a day |
| ua_id | Functional | mail.com | 12 months |
| utag_main | Functional | mail.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.