What does pastebin.com track?
Before any consent, pastebin.com loaded 4 tracking companies and set 3 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 pastebin.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 3
- Third-party hosts
- 22
- Cookies in total
- 6
Consent banner
The page loaded Google Funding Choices, 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
5 of the 13 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- Amazon Advertising3 requestsAdvertising
c.amazon-adsystem.com, config.aps.amazon-adsystem.com
- Outbrain1 requestAdvertising
odb.outbrain.com
- Google Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- vlitag.com7 requestsUnclassified
services.vlitag.com, s3.vlitag.com, dsp.vlitag.com
- highrevenueformat.com3 requestsUnclassified
www.highrevenueformat.com
- vliplatform.com2 requestsUnclassified
px.vliplatform.com, static.vliplatform.com
- pocpoc.io2 requestsUnclassified
adsystem.pocpoc.io, px.pocpoc.io
- hadronid.net1 requestUnclassified
cdn.hadronid.net
- InMobi Choice14 requestsConsent banner
cmp.inmobi.com, visit-server.inmobi-choice.io, api.cmp.inmobi.com
- Google6 requestsFunctional
fundingchoicesmessages.google.com, imasdk.googleapis.com
- Cloudflare5 requestsContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytics | pastebin.com | 13 months |
| _ga_S72LBY47R8 | Analytics | pastebin.com | 13 months |
| FCCDCF | Analytics | pastebin.com | 13 months |
| __ppIdCC | Unclassified | pastebin.com | 2 months |
| _csrf-frontend | Unclassified | pastebin.com | Session |
| usprivacy | Functional | pastebin.com | 13 months |
The page also wrote 8 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.