What does politico.eu track?
Before any consent, politico.eu loaded 5 tracking companies and set 12 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 78% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.politico.eu once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 5
- Tracking cookies
- 12
- Third-party hosts
- 17
- Cookies in total
- 20
Consent banner
The page loaded Google Funding Choices, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 5 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 10 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads2 requestsAdvertising
pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- Meta1 requestSocial media
connect.facebook.net
- Cxense (Piano)5 requestsAnalytics
cdn.cxense.com, id.cxense.com, comcluster.cxense.com, api.cxense.com
- Chartbeat4 requestsAnalytics
static.chartbeat.com, mab.chartbeat.com, ping.chartbeat.net
- Google Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- asadcdn.com33 requestsUnclassified
www.asadcdn.com
- Google4 requestsFunctional
fundingchoicesmessages.google.com
- Piano3 requestsFunctional
code.piano.io, c2-eu.piano.io, buy-eu.piano.io
- Cloudflare2 requestsContent delivery
challenges.cloudflare.com
- unpkg1 requestContent delivery
unpkg.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was s_fid, from Adobe, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| cX_G | Advertising | politico.eu | 13 months |
| gckp | Advertising | cxense.com (third party) | 12 months |
| __pat | Analytics | politico.eu | 30 days |
| __pvi | Analytics | politico.eu | 1 day |
| _cb | Analytics | politico.eu | 13 months |
| _cb_svref | Analytics | politico.eu | Under a day |
| _chartbeat2 | Analytics | politico.eu | 13 months |
| cX_P | Analytics | politico.eu | 13 months |
| FCCDCF | Analytics | politico.eu | 13 months |
| s_cc | Analytics | politico.eu | Session |
| s_fid | Analytics | politico.eu | 13 months |
| s_vi | Analytics | politico.eu | 13 months |
| _sp_su | Unclassified | politico.eu | 12 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | politico.eu | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | piano.io (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | www.politico.com | Under a day |
| __tbc | Functional | politico.eu | 13 months |
| _pcid | Functional | politico.eu | 13 months |
| _pctx | Functional | politico.eu | 13 months |
| xbc | Functional | politico.eu | 13 months |
The page also wrote 14 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.