What does playstation.com track?
Before any consent, playstation.com loaded 3 tracking companies and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 58% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.playstation.com/de-de once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 9
- Cookies in total
- 11
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 3 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 7 companies it contacted before consent were social media companies.
- X (Twitter)2 requestsSocial media
static.ads-twitter.com, t.co
- Meta2 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net
- Adobe2 requestsAnalytics
assets.adobedtm.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- btstatic.com1 requestUnclassified
s.btstatic.com
- OneTrust13 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Monotype (Fonts.net)1 requestFunctional
fast.fonts.net
- Schema App1 requestFunctional
cdn.schemaapp.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _twpid | Unclassified | playstation.com | 13 months |
| _twsid | Unclassified | playstation.com | 13 months |
| akacd_clt_webtoolbar_prod_prc | Unclassified | web-toolbar.playstation.com | 13 months |
| eucookiepreference | Unclassified | playstation.com | 3 days |
| __cf_bm | Functional | fonts.net (third party) | Under a day |
| _abck | Functional | playstation.com | 12 months |
| country | Functional | www.playstation.com | 1 day |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | playstation.com | 12 months |
| bm_s | Necessary | playstation.com | 31 days |
| bm_so | Necessary | playstation.com | 1 day |
| bm_sz | Necessary | playstation.com | Under a day |
The page also wrote 5 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.