What does ted.com track?
Before any consent, ted.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 www.ted.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 14
- Cookies in total
- 2
Consent banner
The page loaded Osano, 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
3 of the 9 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Sailthru10 requestsAnalytics
api.sail-personalize.com, ak.sail-horizon.com
- New Relic5 requestsAnalytics
bam.nr-data.net
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- tedcdn.com25 requestsUnclassified
pi.tedcdn.com, pl.tedcdn.com
- yourbow.com2 requestsUnclassified
cdn.yourbow.com
- idsequoia.ai1 requestUnclassified
api.idsequoia.ai
- Osano4 requestsConsent banner
cmp.osano.com
- Fundraise Up9 requestsFunctional
static.fundraiseup.com, cdn.fundraiseup.com, fndrsp.net
- Prismic2 requestsContent delivery
static.cdn.prismic.io, tedconf.prismic.io
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| fundraiseup_cid | Unclassified | ted.com | 13 months |
| x-user-country | Unclassified | www.ted.com | 7 days |
The page also wrote 4 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.