What does openai.com track?
Before any consent, openai.com loaded 1 tracking company and set 1 advertising or analytics cookie.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 75% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading openai.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 6
- Cookies in total
- 6
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 4 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Cloudflare Web Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
static.cloudflareinsights.com, cloudflareinsights.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- chatgpt.com6 requestsUnclassified
chatgpt.com, ab.chatgpt.com
- statsigapi.net1 requestUnclassified
statsigapi.net
- Contentful16 requestsContent delivery
images.ctfassets.net
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| locale | Advertising | openai.com | Session |
| oai-did | Unclassified | openai.com | 12 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | openai.com | Under a day |
| _cfuvid | Functional | openai.com | Session |
| cf_clearance | Functional | openai.com | 12 months |
| country | Functional | openai.com | 12 months |
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
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.