What does paypal.com track?
Before any consent, paypal.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 www.paypal.com/de/home once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 5
- Cookies in total
- 11
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
1 of the 3 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- browser-intake-us5-datadoghq.com9 requestsUnclassified
browser-intake-us5-datadoghq.com
- Google11 requestsFunctional
www.recaptcha.net, www.gstatic.com, fonts.gstatic.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _dd_s, from Datadog, lasting about under a day.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _dd_s | Analytics | www.paypal.com | Under a day |
| cookie_prefs | Unclassified | paypal.com | 12 months |
| enforce_policy | Functional | paypal.com | 12 months |
| l7_az | Functional | paypal.com | Under a day |
| LANG | Functional | paypal.com | Under a day |
| nsid | Functional | www.paypal.com | Session |
| ts | Functional | paypal.com | 12 months |
| ts_c | Functional | paypal.com | 12 months |
| tsrce | Functional | paypal.com | 3 days |
| x-pp-s | Functional | paypal.com | Session |
| datadome | Necessary | paypal.com | 30 days |
The page also wrote 1 key 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.