What does seekingalpha.com track?
seekingalpha.com loaded no advertising or analytics trackers before consent.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading seekingalpha.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 0
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 5
- Cookies in total
- 8
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it.
Companies contacted before consent
1 of the 2 companies it contacted before consent were consent banner companies.
None.
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- OneTrust9 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- HUMAN Security (PerimeterX)4 requestsFunctional
collector-pxxgcxm9by.cl6.px-cloud.net, ift.px-cloud.net, js.px-cloud.net
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _pxde | Unclassified | seekingalpha.com | Under a day |
| machine_cookie | Unclassified | seekingalpha.com | 13 months |
| machine_cookie_ts | Unclassified | seekingalpha.com | 13 months |
| userLocalData_mone_session_lastSession | Unclassified | seekingalpha.com | Under a day |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | seekingalpha.com | 12 months |
| _px3 | Necessary | seekingalpha.com | Under a day |
| _pxvid | Necessary | seekingalpha.com | 12 months |
| pxcts | Necessary | seekingalpha.com | Session |
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.