What does samsung.com track?
Before any consent, samsung.com loaded 4 tracking companies and set 5 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 www.samsung.com/de once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 5
- Third-party hosts
- 21
- Cookies in total
- 22
Consent banner
The page loaded TrustArc, 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
3 of the 9 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Criteo4 requestsAdvertising
gum.criteo.com, dynamic.criteo.com, sslwidget.criteo.com
- UpSellit1 requestAdvertising
www.upsellit.com
- X (Twitter)3 requestsSocial media
static.ads-twitter.com, t.co, analytics.twitter.com
- Adobe12 requestsAnalytics
assets.adobedtm.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- audioeye-services.com11 requestsUnclassified
wsv3cdn.audioeye-services.com, analytics.audioeye-services.com
- gsitrix.com6 requestsUnclassified
p.gsitrix.com, o.gsitrix.com
- dwin1.com1 requestUnclassified
www.dwin1.com
- TrustArc5 requestsConsent banner
consent.trustarc.com
- Akamai7 requestsContent delivery
s.go-mpulse.net, c.go-mpulse.net, trial-eum-clientnsv4-s.akamaihd.net, trial-eum-clienttons-s.akamaihd.net
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was muc_ads, from X (Twitter), lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| cto_bundle | Advertising | criteo.com (third party) | 13 months |
| cto_bundle | Advertising | samsung.com | 13 months |
| muc_ads | Advertising | t.co (third party) | 13 months |
| personalization_id | Advertising | twitter.com (third party) | 13 months |
| uid | Advertising | criteo.com (third party) | 13 months |
| __COM_SPEED | Unclassified | samsung.com | 1 day |
| _twpid | Unclassified | samsung.com | 13 months |
| _twsid | Unclassified | samsung.com | 13 months |
| AnalyseUnique | Unclassified | p.gsitrix.com (third party) | 13 months |
| cookie_country | Unclassified | samsung.com | 1 day |
| country_codes | Unclassified | samsung.com | Session |
| country_region | Unclassified | samsung.com | Session |
| device_type | Unclassified | samsung.com | Session |
| s_fpid | Unclassified | samsung.com | 13 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | twitter.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | t.co (third party) | Under a day |
| AKA_A2 | Functional | samsung.com | Under a day |
| AWSALBTG | Functional | api-recommender.bigdata.samsung.com | 7 days |
| AWSALBTGCORS | Functional | api-recommender.bigdata.samsung.com | 7 days |
| RT | Functional | samsung.com | 7 days |
| notice_behavior | Necessary | samsung.com | Session |
| TAsessionID | Necessary | samsung.com | Under a day |
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.