What does media.net track?
Before any consent, media.net loaded 6 tracking companies and set 10 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.media.net once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 6
- Tracking cookies
- 10
- Third-party hosts
- 25
- Cookies in total
- 16
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
2 of the 11 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Microsoft Advertising4 requestsAdvertising
bat.bing.com
- Google Ads2 requestsAdvertising
ad.doubleclick.net, pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- X (Twitter)3 requestsSocial media
static.ads-twitter.com, t.co, analytics.twitter.com
- Meta3 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
- Google Analytics6 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, www.google-analytics.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Microsoft Clarity4 requestsAnalytics
e.clarity.ms, www.clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- pcdn.co15 requestsUnclassified
s31073.pcdn.co
- Consentmanager8 requestsConsent banner
cdn.consentmanager.net, eu-us-apac.consentmanager.net, eu-us-apac-cdn.consentmanager.net, delivery.consentmanager.net
- Google7 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, ajax.googleapis.com, fonts.googleapis.com, www.google.com
- Webflow4 requestsContent delivery
cdn.prod.website-files.com
- Amazon Web Services1 requestContent delivery
d3e54v103j8qbb.cloudfront.net
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was muc_ads, from X (Twitter), lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Advertising | media.net | 3 months |
| _gcl_au | Advertising | media.net | 3 months |
| _uetsid | Advertising | media.net | 1 day |
| _uetvid | Advertising | media.net | 13 months |
| muc_ads | Advertising | t.co (third party) | 13 months |
| MUID | Advertising | bing.com (third party) | 13 months |
| personalization_id | Advertising | twitter.com (third party) | 13 months |
| _ga | Analytics | media.net | 13 months |
| _gat_UA-22554797-6 | Analytics | media.net | Under a day |
| _gid | Analytics | media.net | 1 day |
| _twpid | Unclassified | media.net | 13 months |
| _twsid | Unclassified | media.net | 13 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | twitter.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | t.co (third party) | Under a day |
| __cmpcccx66271 | Functional | media.net | 14 days |
| __cmpconsentx66271 | Functional | media.net | 14 days |
The page also wrote 12 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.