What does mpg.de track?
Before any consent, mpg.de loaded 0 tracking companies and set 2 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's right in line with other .de sites we scanned: the typical one among 60 sites also loaded 0 tracking companies.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.mpg.de/de once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 0
- Tracking cookies
- 2
- Third-party hosts
- 5
- Cookies in total
- 4
Consent banner
The page loaded Usercentrics, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it.
Companies contacted before consent
None.
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Usercentrics8 requestsConsent banner
web.cmp.usercentrics.eu, v1.api.service.cmp.usercentrics.eu, app.usercentrics.eu, uct.service.usercentrics.eu
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _pk_id.2.b3e9, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _pk_id.2.b3e9 | Analytics | www.mpg.de | 13 months |
| _pk_ses.2.b3e9 | Analytics | www.mpg.de | Under a day |
| _mpg_session_r | Unclassified | www.mpg.de | Session |
| TSc811e7ae027 | Unclassified | www.mpg.de | Session |
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
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- 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.