What does theverge.com track?
Before any consent, theverge.com loaded 10 tracking companies and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 92% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.theverge.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 10
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 40
- Cookies in total
- 9
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 10 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
8 of the 22 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Google Ads15 requestsAdvertising
ad.doubleclick.net, securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, pagead2.googlesyndication.com, www.googletagservices.com
- Wunderkind (BounceX)9 requestsAdvertising
assets.bounceexchange.com, events.bouncex.net
- Amazon Advertising8 requestsAdvertising
c.amazon-adsystem.com, web-banner.ads.aps.amazon-adsystem.com, aax-eu.amazon-adsystem.com, aax.amazon-adsystem.com
- Blockthrough7 requestsAdvertising
api.btloader.com, btloader.com, cdn.btloader.com, cdn.api.btloader.com
- DoubleVerify5 requestsAdvertising
pub.doubleverify.com, vtrk.dv.tech
- Concert (Vox Media)4 requestsAdvertising
cdn.concert.io
- Integral Ad Science1 requestAdvertising
dt.adsafeprotected.com
- Epsilon (Conversant)1 requestAdvertising
secure.cdn.fastclick.net
- Google Analytics4 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Scorecard Research (Comscore)2 requestsAnalytics
sb.scorecardresearch.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- ad-delivery.net11 requestsUnclassified
ad-delivery.net
- worldrealize.com3 requestsUnclassified
worldrealize.com
- dns-finder.com2 requestsUnclassified
ab.dns-finder.com
- bullwhip.cloud1 requestUnclassified
cdn.bullwhip.cloud
- wknd.ai1 requestUnclassified
tag.wknd.ai
- coralproject.net1 requestUnclassified
theverge.coral.coralproject.net
- merequartz.com1 requestUnclassified
merequartz.com
- OneTrust14 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Google9 requestsFunctional
www.gstatic.com, www.google.com, fonts.gstatic.com
- Piano1 requestFunctional
assets.zephr.com
- Vox Media2 requestsContent delivery
concertads-configs.vox-cdn.com, apps.voxmedia.com
- Cloudflare1 requestContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _awl | Unclassified | theverge.com | 13 months |
| _vm_consent_type | Unclassified | theverge.com | 1 day |
| _vm_consent_type | Unclassified | www.theverge.com | 1 day |
| blaize_session | Unclassified | www.theverge.com | 5 months |
| blaize_tracking_id | Unclassified | www.theverge.com | 13 months |
| vmidv1 | Unclassified | theverge.com | 13 months |
| AWSALB | Functional | www.theverge.com | 7 days |
| AWSALBCORS | Functional | www.theverge.com | 7 days |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | theverge.com | 12 months |
The page also wrote 10 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.