What does soundcloud.com track?
Before any consent, soundcloud.com loaded 7 tracking companies and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 86% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading soundcloud.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 7
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 28
- Cookies in total
- 9
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 7 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
6 of the 17 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Aditude12 requestsAdvertising
raven-edge.aditude.io, raven-static.aditude.io, edge.aditude.io, geo.aditude.io
- Google Ads5 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Amazon Advertising5 requestsAdvertising
c.amazon-adsystem.com, config.aps.amazon-adsystem.com
- ID53 requestsAdvertising
cdn.id5-sync.com, api.id5-sync.com
- Lotame2 requestsAdvertising
tags.crwdcntrl.net
- Epsilon (Conversant)2 requestsAdvertising
secure.cdn.fastclick.net
- Scorecard Research (Comscore)3 requestsAnalytics
sb.scorecardresearch.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- sndcdn.com61 requestsUnclassified
a-v2.sndcdn.com, i1.sndcdn.com, secure.sndcdn.com, style.sndcdn.com
- script.ac2 requestsUnclassified
cadmus.script.ac
- prebid.cloud2 requestsUnclassified
geo-location.prebid.cloud
- htlbid.com1 requestUnclassified
htlbid.com
- prodregistryv2.org1 requestUnclassified
prodregistryv2.org
- clean.gg1 requestUnclassified
i.clean.gg
- OneTrust16 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Google1 requestFunctional
www.gstatic.com
- MoEngage1 requestFunctional
cdn.moengage.com
- Amazon Web Services21 requestsContent delivery
dn0qt3r0xannq.cloudfront.net, ams-pageview-public.s3.amazonaws.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| cw-test-00000000_htlbid-tude_0_100 | Unclassified | soundcloud.com | 30 days |
| cw-test-20250425_refresh-viewable-test_30_70 | Unclassified | soundcloud.com | 30 days |
| cw-test-20250908_bcss_50_50 | Unclassified | soundcloud.com | 30 days |
| cw-test-20251027_triplelift-test_10_90 | Unclassified | soundcloud.com | 30 days |
| sc_theme | Unclassified | soundcloud.com | 13 months |
| sc_tracking_anonymous_id | Unclassified | soundcloud.com | 12 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | aditude.io (third party) | Under a day |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | soundcloud.com | 12 months |
| datadome | Necessary | soundcloud.com | 12 months |
The page also wrote 31 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.