What does tagesschau.de track?
tagesschau.de loaded no advertising or analytics trackers before consent.
That's right in line with other .de sites we scanned: the typical one among 60 sites also loaded 0 tracking companies.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.tagesschau.de once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 0
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 4
- Cookies in total
- 3
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 3 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
None.
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- h-cdn.com4 requestsUnclassified
player.h-cdn.com, zagent7.h-cdn.com
- ndr.de1 requestUnclassified
images.ndr.de
- pa-cd.com1 requestUnclassified
vqggwrz.pa-cd.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _pcid | Functional | tagesschau.de | 13 months |
| _pctx | Functional | tagesschau.de | 13 months |
| pa_privacy | Necessary | www.tagesschau.de | 13 months |
The page also wrote 3 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.