What does springer.com track?
Before any consent, springer.com loaded 3 tracking companies and set 0 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 link.springer.com/brands/springer once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 7
- Cookies in total
- 8
Consent banner
The page loaded IAB TCF (unidentified platform), 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
2 of the 5 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads4 requestsAdvertising
pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- Hotjar3 requestsAnalytics
static.hotjar.com, script.hotjar.com, vc.hotjar.io
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- springernature.com12 requestsUnclassified
media.springernature.com
- jsDelivr3 requestsContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| idp_marker | Unclassified | springer.com | 13 months |
| idp_session | Unclassified | springer.com | Session |
| idp_session_http | Unclassified | springer.com | Session |
| sncc | Unclassified | springer.com | 12 months |
| sncc_tc_17 | Unclassified | springer.com | 12 months |
| user.uuid.v2 | Unclassified | springer.com | 3 months |
| _hjSession_5176038 | Functional | springer.com | Under a day |
| _hjSessionUser_5176038 | Functional | springer.com | 12 months |
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.