What does news18.com track?
Before any consent, news18.com loaded 7 tracking companies and set 9 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 86% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.news18.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 7
- Tracking cookies
- 9
- Third-party hosts
- 44
- Cookies in total
- 20
Consent banner
The page loaded Google Funding Choices, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 7 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
6 of the 19 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Amazon Advertising49 requestsAdvertising
m.media-amazon.com, web-banner.ads.aps.amazon-adsystem.com, c.amazon-adsystem.com, aax-eu.amazon-adsystem.com
- Google Ads12 requestsAdvertising
pagead2.googlesyndication.com, securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, ad.doubleclick.net, stats.g.doubleclick.net
- PubMatic2 requestsAdvertising
ads.pubmatic.com, ut.pubmatic.com
- AdRecover2 requestsAdvertising
delivery.adrecover.com
- Google Analytics14 requestsAnalytics
region1.analytics.google.com, www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Chartbeat4 requestsAnalytics
static.chartbeat.com, ping.chartbeat.net, mab.chartbeat.com
- Scorecard Research (Comscore)3 requestsAnalytics
sb.scorecardresearch.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- vidgyor.com25 requestsUnclassified
static.vidgyor.com
- nw18.com11 requestsUnclassified
staticcdp.nw18.com, api-pf.nw18.com
- k-words.io6 requestsUnclassified
plausible.k-words.io, back.k-words.io, sdk.k-words.io
- local18.in4 requestsUnclassified
api.local18.in
- jio.com2 requestsUnclassified
nw18live.cdn.jio.com
- instaread.co1 requestUnclassified
instaread.co
- Google26 requestsFunctional
fundingchoicesmessages.google.com, www.gstatic.com, fonts.gstatic.com, csi.gstatic.com
- iZooto5 requestsFunctional
cdn.izooto.com
- Akamai7 requestsContent delivery
n18syndication.akamaized.net
- Amazon Web Services2 requestsContent delivery
s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com, s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com
- jQuery CDN1 requestContent delivery
code.jquery.com
- jsDelivr1 requestContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _ga, from Google Analytics, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | Advertising | news18.com | 3 months |
| _cb | Analytics | news18.com | 13 months |
| _cb_svref | Analytics | news18.com | Under a day |
| _chartbeat2 | Analytics | news18.com | 13 months |
| _dd_s | Analytics | www.news18.com | Under a day |
| _ga | Analytics | news18.com | 13 months |
| _ga_4LJXB6XTLN | Analytics | news18.com | 13 months |
| _ga_TK5H2BWHVY | Analytics | news18.com | 13 months |
| FCCDCF | Analytics | news18.com | 13 months |
| cdp_tags | Unclassified | news18.com | Under a day |
| cdp_user_cohort | Unclassified | news18.com | Under a day |
| cdp_vid | Unclassified | news18.com | 12 months |
| GOOGLE_ADS_PPID | Unclassified | news18.com | 7 days |
| gppid | Unclassified | nw18.com (third party) | 12 months |
| gppid | Unclassified | news18.com | 12 months |
| IZCID | Unclassified | izooto.com (third party) | 13 months |
| ppid | Unclassified | news18.com | 12 months |
| ppid_temp | Unclassified | news18.com | 12 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | izooto.com (third party) | Under a day |
| g_state | Functional | www.news18.com | 6 months |
The page also wrote 15 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
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