What does sciencedaily.com track?
Before any consent, sciencedaily.com loaded 3 tracking companies and set 2 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 sciencedaily.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 2
- Third-party hosts
- 22
- Cookies in total
- 5
Consent banner
The page loaded consentmanager, 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
5 of the 10 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Blockthrough5 requestsAdvertising
btloader.com, cdn.btloader.com, cdn.api.btloader.com, api.btloader.com
- Google Ads4 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de, stats.g.doubleclick.net, ad.doubleclick.net
- Google Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- pubnation.com16 requestsUnclassified
scripts.pubnation.com, exchange.pubnation.com, keywords.pubnation.com
- grow.me4 requestsUnclassified
scripts.grow.me, api.grow.me
- ad-delivery.net3 requestsUnclassified
ad-delivery.net
- scriptwrapper.com1 requestUnclassified
scripts.scriptwrapper.com
- dns-finder.com1 requestUnclassified
ab.dns-finder.com
- Consentmanager6 requestsConsent banner
eu-us-cdn.consentmanager.net, eu-us.consentmanager.net, cdn.consentmanager.net
- Ziff Davis1 requestContent delivery
metrics.rapidedge.io
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _ga, from Google Analytics, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytics | sciencedaily.com | 13 months |
| _ga_GT6V1PPT8H | Analytics | sciencedaily.com | 13 months |
| __cmpcccx134349 | Functional | sciencedaily.com | 6 months |
| __cmpconsentx134349 | Functional | sciencedaily.com | 6 months |
| AWSALBCORS | Functional | scripts.pubnation.com (third party) | Under a day |
The page also wrote 7 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.