What does themoviedb.org track?
Before any consent, themoviedb.org loaded 1 tracking company and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 75% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.themoviedb.org once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 6
- Cookies in total
- 10
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 1 tracking company still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
1 of the 3 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Analytics4 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _OT_sm | Unclassified | www.themoviedb.org | 1 day |
| AWSALBAPP-0 | Unclassified | www.themoviedb.org | 7 days |
| AWSALBAPP-1 | Unclassified | www.themoviedb.org | 7 days |
| AWSALBAPP-2 | Unclassified | www.themoviedb.org | 7 days |
| AWSALBAPP-3 | Unclassified | www.themoviedb.org | 7 days |
| preferences | Unclassified | themoviedb.org | 6 months |
| session | Unclassified | themoviedb.org | 30 days |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | themoviedb.org | 12 months |
| t | Functional | www.themoviedb.org | Session |
| aws-waf-token | Necessary | www.themoviedb.org | 4 days |
The page also wrote 2 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
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- What counts as valid cookie consent in the EU
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- 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.