What does newscientist.com track?
Before any consent, newscientist.com loaded 4 tracking companies and set 2 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 70% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.newscientist.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 2
- Third-party hosts
- 18
- Cookies in total
- 13
Consent banner
The page loaded IAB TCF (unidentified platform), a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 4 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 11 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Google Ads4 requestsAdvertising
pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- Adobe18 requestsAnalytics
use.typekit.net, p.typekit.net
- Google Analytics7 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Cxense (Piano)2 requestsAnalytics
cdn.cxense.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- anm.co.uk5 requestsUnclassified
dmg-libs.anm.co.uk
- dmgmediaprivacy.co.uk5 requestsUnclassified
cmp.dmgmediaprivacy.co.uk
- dailymail.co.uk4 requestsUnclassified
crta.dailymail.co.uk, mads.dailymail.co.uk, www.dailymail.co.uk
- metro.co.uk1 requestUnclassified
cdn.metro.co.uk
- OneSignal4 requestsFunctional
cdn.onesignal.com, api.onesignal.com, onesignal.com
- WordPress.com2 requestsFunctional
stats.wp.com, pixel.wp.com
- Cloudflare20 requestsContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.com
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytics | newscientist.com | 13 months |
| _ga_N0NXS34EMT | Analytics | newscientist.com | 13 months |
| vip-go-seg | Unclassified | www.newscientist.com | 30 days |
| __cf_bm | Functional | onesignal.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | c2.newscientist.com | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | pcdn.newscientist.com | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | auth.newscientist.com | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | vx.newscientist.com | Under a day |
| __pid | Functional | newscientist.com | 30 days |
| __tbc | Functional | newscientist.com | 13 months |
| _pctx | Functional | newscientist.com | 13 months |
| _pprv | Functional | newscientist.com | 13 months |
| xbc | Functional | newscientist.com | 13 months |
The page also wrote 4 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.