What does medium.com track?
Before any consent, medium.com loaded 2 tracking companies and set 3 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 56% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading medium.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 3
- Third-party hosts
- 7
- Cookies in total
- 8
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 3 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Cloudflare Web Analytics1 requestAnalytics
static.cloudflareinsights.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Google11 requestsFunctional
www.gstatic.com, www.google.com, accounts.google.com, fonts.gstatic.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was uid, from Adform, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| uid | Advertising | medium.com | 13 months |
| _ga | Analytics | medium.com | 13 months |
| _ga_7JY7T788PK | Analytics | medium.com | 13 months |
| __cf_ob | Unclassified | medium.com | Session |
| sid | Unclassified | medium.com | 13 months |
| _cfuvid | Functional | medium.com | Session |
| cf_clearance | Functional | medium.com | 12 months |
| g_state | Functional | medium.com | 6 months |
The page also wrote 2 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.