What does mediavine.com track?
Before any consent, mediavine.com loaded 1 tracking company and set 4 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.mediavine.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 4
- Third-party hosts
- 13
- Cookies in total
- 13
Consent banner
The page loaded consentmanager, 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
1 of the 2 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- HubSpot10 requestsAnalytics
js.hs-scripts.com, js.hubspot.com, js.hs-analytics.net, js.hscollectedforms.net
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Consentmanager11 requestsConsent banner
eu-us-cdn.consentmanager.net, eu-us.consentmanager.net, cdn.consentmanager.net
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was __hstc, from HubSpot, lasting about 6 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| __hssc | Advertising | mediavine.com | Under a day |
| __hssrc | Advertising | mediavine.com | Session |
| __hstc | Advertising | mediavine.com | 6 months |
| hubspotutk | Advertising | mediavine.com | 6 months |
| crumb | Unclassified | mediavine.com | Session |
| __cf_bm | Functional | hs-scripts.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | hs-banner.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | hs-analytics.net (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | hsforms.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | hubspot.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cmpcc | Functional | www.mediavine.com | 13 months |
| __cmpcc | Functional | eu-us.consentmanager.net (third party) | Under a day |
| __cmpcccu78323 | Functional | mediavine.com | 6 months |
The page also wrote 3 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.