What does sueddeutsche.de track?
Before any consent, sueddeutsche.de loaded 5 tracking companies and set 1 advertising or analytics cookie.
That's more tracking companies than 78% of the 2,450 sites we scanned. Among the 60 other .de sites we scanned, the typical one loaded 0 tracking companies — sueddeutsche.de loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.sueddeutsche.de once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 5
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 13
- Cookies in total
- 13
Consent banner
The page loaded Sourcepoint, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 5 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 9 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Blockthrough8 requestsAdvertising
btloader.com, api.btloader.com, cdn.btloader.com, cdn.api.btloader.com
- Google Ads7 requestsAdvertising
ad.doubleclick.net
- Kameleoon4 requestsAnalytics
eu-data.kameleoon.eu, wni4spsbqo.kameleoon.eu
- Cxense (Piano)2 requestsAnalytics
cdn.cxense.com
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- ad-delivery.net11 requestsUnclassified
ad-delivery.net
- dns-finder.com2 requestsUnclassified
ab.dns-finder.com
- adspirit.de1 requestUnclassified
cdn.adspirit.de
- benelph.de1 requestUnclassified
benelph.de
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _dd_s, from Datadog, lasting about under a day.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _dd_s | Analytics | www.sueddeutsche.de | Under a day |
| _dd_s_v2 | Unclassified | www.sueddeutsche.de | 12 months |
| _sp_su | Unclassified | sueddeutsche.de | 12 months |
| SZExperiments | Unclassified | www.sueddeutsche.de | 5 days |
| __cf_bm | Functional | cdn.sueddeutsche.de | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | auth.sueddeutsche.de | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | c2.sueddeutsche.de | Under a day |
| __pid | Functional | sueddeutsche.de | 30 days |
| __tbc | Functional | sueddeutsche.de | 13 months |
| _pctx | Functional | sueddeutsche.de | 13 months |
| _pprv | Functional | sueddeutsche.de | 13 months |
| BIGipServer~sz.shared~lb-redirect | Functional | sueddeutsche.de | Session |
| xbc | Functional | sueddeutsche.de | 13 months |
The page also wrote 9 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
Understanding this page
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- 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.