What does thingiverse.com track?
Before any consent, thingiverse.com loaded 4 tracking companies and set 2 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 70% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.thingiverse.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 2
- Third-party hosts
- 14
- Cookies in total
- 8
Consent banner
The page loaded consentmanager, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 4 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 8 companies it contacted before consent were functional companies.
- Raptive (AdThrive)12 requestsAdvertising
ads.adthrive.com, stormgate.production.raptive.com, bd.raptivecdn.com
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
region1.google-analytics.com, www.googletagmanager.com
- Cloudflare Web Analytics1 requestAnalytics
static.cloudflareinsights.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Consentmanager5 requestsConsent banner
eu-us-cdn.consentmanager.net, eu-us.consentmanager.net
- Google9 requestsFunctional
storage.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com, fonts.googleapis.com
- Sentry3 requestsFunctional
o1291033.ingest.us.sentry.io
- JW Player1 requestFunctional
cdn.jwplayer.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _ga, from Google Analytics, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytics | thingiverse.com | 13 months |
| _ga_Q4HZ5RZF17 | Analytics | thingiverse.com | 13 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | thingiverse.com | Under a day |
| __cmpcccx86685 | Functional | thingiverse.com | 3 days |
| __cmpconsentx86685 | Functional | thingiverse.com | 3 days |
| _cfuvid | Functional | thingiverse.com | Session |
| cf_clearance | Functional | thingiverse.com | 12 months |
| PHPSESSID | Functional | thingiverse.com | 14 days |
The page also wrote 11 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.