What does parallels.com track?
Before any consent, parallels.com loaded 4 tracking companies and set 4 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.parallels.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 4
- Third-party hosts
- 13
- Cookies in total
- 13
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, 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
2 of the 7 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- X (Twitter)3 requestsSocial media
static.ads-twitter.com, t.co, analytics.twitter.com
- Google Analytics6 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Optimizely3 requestsAnalytics
cdn.optimizely.com, cdn3.optimizely.com, a25968344087.cdn.optimizely.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was muc_ads, from X (Twitter), lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| muc_ads | Advertising | t.co (third party) | 13 months |
| optimizelyEndUserId | Advertising | parallels.com | 6 months |
| personalization_id | Advertising | twitter.com (third party) | 13 months |
| _oeu1790936963908r0.8209790673670173$… | Analytics | a25968344087.cdn.optimizely.com (third party) | 6 months |
| _twpid | Unclassified | parallels.com | 13 months |
| _twsid | Unclassified | parallels.com | 13 months |
| cpweb_lang | Unclassified | parallels.com | 30 days |
| dynPrice_CurrencyRegion | Unclassified | www.parallels.com | Session |
| regionCookie | Unclassified | www.parallels.com | Session |
| x-streamname | Unclassified | parallels.com | 30 days |
| __cf_bm | Functional | t.co (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | twitter.com (third party) | Under a day |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | parallels.com | 12 months |
The page also wrote 6 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.