What does so.com track?
so.com loaded no advertising or analytics trackers before consent.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.so.com/?src=so.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 0
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 10
- Cookies in total
- 12
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
5 of the 5 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
None.
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- 360tres.com19 requestsUnclassified
so1.360tres.com, ss1.360tres.com, ss2.360tres.com, ss.360tres.com
- qhupdate.com2 requestsUnclassified
s.qhupdate.com
- mediav.com2 requestsUnclassified
show-g.mediav.com
- 360.cn2 requestsUnclassified
socm.dmp.360.cn, query.rec.360.cn
- 360kuai.com1 requestUnclassified
user.360kuai.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| __guid | Unclassified | so.com | 10 months |
| __huid | Unclassified | 360.cn (third party) | 13 months |
| __huid | Unclassified | so.com | 13 months |
| _S | Unclassified | www.so.com | Under a day |
| count | Unclassified | www.so.com | 1 day |
| gtHuid | Unclassified | www.so.com | Under a day |
| QiHooGUID | Unclassified | so.com | 13 months |
| so_huid | Unclassified | so.com | 13 months |
| so-like-red | Unclassified | www.so.com | 13 months |
| v1 | Unclassified | mediav.com (third party) | 13 months |
| webp | Unclassified | www.so.com | 12 months |
| PHPSESSID | Functional | open.onebox.so.com | Session |
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.