What does softonic.com track?
Before any consent, softonic.com loaded 4 tracking companies and set 0 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 de.softonic.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 11
- Cookies in total
- 26
Consent banner
The page loaded Didomi, 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
2 of the 6 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Microsoft Advertising6 requestsAdvertising
bat.bing.net, bat.bing.com
- Google Ads1 requestAdvertising
pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- Microsoft Clarity3 requestsAnalytics
www.clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms, p.clarity.ms
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- sftcdn.net34 requestsUnclassified
images.sftcdn.net, assets.sftcdn.net, avatars.sftcdn.net
- Didomi6 requestsConsent banner
sdk.privacy-center.org
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _swo_pos | Unclassified | softonic.com | 15 days |
| _swo_pos | Unclassified | de.softonic.com | 15 days |
| ber-browser-name | Unclassified | softonic.com | Under a day |
| ber-browser-name | Unclassified | de.softonic.com | Under a day |
| ber-city | Unclassified | softonic.com | Under a day |
| ber-city | Unclassified | de.softonic.com | Under a day |
| ber-country-code | Unclassified | softonic.com | Under a day |
| ber-country-code | Unclassified | de.softonic.com | Under a day |
| ber-device-type | Unclassified | softonic.com | Under a day |
| ber-device-type | Unclassified | de.softonic.com | Under a day |
| ber-is-bot | Unclassified | softonic.com | Under a day |
| ber-is-bot | Unclassified | de.softonic.com | Under a day |
| ber-is-landing | Unclassified | softonic.com | Under a day |
| ber-is-landing | Unclassified | de.softonic.com | Under a day |
| ber-region | Unclassified | softonic.com | Under a day |
| ber-region | Unclassified | de.softonic.com | Under a day |
| ber-user-platform-id | Unclassified | softonic.com | Under a day |
| ber-user-platform-id | Unclassified | de.softonic.com | Under a day |
| ber-utm-campaign | Unclassified | softonic.com | Under a day |
| ber-utm-campaign | Unclassified | de.softonic.com | Under a day |
| ber-utm-medium | Unclassified | softonic.com | Under a day |
| ber-utm-medium | Unclassified | de.softonic.com | Under a day |
| ber-utm-source | Unclassified | softonic.com | Under a day |
| ber-utm-source | Unclassified | de.softonic.com | Under a day |
| utm | Unclassified | softonic.com | 30 days |
| didomi_token | Functional | softonic.com | 12 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.