What does rte.ie track?
Before any consent, rte.ie loaded 1 tracking company and set 6 advertising or analytics cookies.
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.rte.ie once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 6
- Third-party hosts
- 8
- Cookies in total
- 8
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 1 tracking company still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 6 companies it contacted before consent were functional companies.
- AT Internet (Piano)1 requestAnalytics
tag.aticdn.net
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- ati-host.net1 requestUnclassified
logws1309.ati-host.net
- OneTrust15 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- SAP (Gigya)4 requestsFunctional
cdns.eu1.gigya.com
- Google2 requestsFunctional
fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com
- Cloudflare4 requestsContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was atuserid, from AT Internet (Piano), lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| gig_bootstrap_3_L-OXyAWCXfbx17zMDZJf-osSrOJvZ-XdrJSfZCvJoC1MRcStY6WjP2oDZj_TjeVi | Advertising | rte.ie | 12 months |
| gmid | Advertising | account.rte.ie | 12 months |
| hasGmid | Advertising | account.rte.ie | 6 months |
| ucid | Advertising | account.rte.ie | 12 months |
| atidvisitor | Analytics | www.rte.ie | 6 months |
| atuserid | Analytics | www.rte.ie | 13 months |
| gig_canary | Functional | cdns.eu1.gigya.com (third party) | Under a day |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | rte.ie | 6 months |
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.