What does nature.com track?
Before any consent, nature.com loaded 2 tracking companies and set 0 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 www.nature.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 5
- Cookies in total
- 6
Consent banner
The page loaded IAB TCF (unidentified platform), a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 2 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 5 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- springernature.com23 requestsUnclassified
media.springernature.com
- altmetric.com4 requestsUnclassified
badges.altmetric.com
- webcontentassessor.com1 requestUnclassified
scripts.webcontentassessor.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| idp_marker | Unclassified | nature.com | 13 months |
| idp_session | Unclassified | nature.com | Session |
| idp_session_http | Unclassified | nature.com | Session |
| sncc | Unclassified | nature.com | 12 months |
| sncc_tc_8 | Unclassified | nature.com | 12 months |
| user.uuid.v2 | Unclassified | www.nature.com | 3 months |
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.