What does minecraft.net track?
Before any consent, minecraft.net loaded 3 tracking companies and set 3 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 58% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.minecraft.net/en-us once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 3
- Third-party hosts
- 12
- Cookies in total
- 9
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 6 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Adobe14 requestsAnalytics
assets.adobedtm.com
- Microsoft Clarity3 requestsAnalytics
www.clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms, n.clarity.ms
- Microsoft Azure Monitor1 requestAnalytics
js.monitor.azure.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was MC1, from Microsoft, lasting about 12 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| MC1 | Advertising | microsoft.com (third party) | 12 months |
| MSFPC | Advertising | www.minecraft.net | 12 months |
| MicrosoftApplicationsTelemetryDeviceId | Analytics | www.minecraft.net | 12 months |
| ai_session | Functional | www.minecraft.net | Under a day |
| ak_bmsc | Functional | minecraft.net | Under a day |
| AKA_A2 | Functional | minecraft.net | Under a day |
| bm_sv | Functional | minecraft.net | Under a day |
| MS0 | Functional | microsoft.com (third party) | Under a day |
| RT | Functional | minecraft.net | 7 days |
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.