What does tiktok.com track?
Before any consent, tiktok.com loaded 0 tracking companies and set 4 advertising or analytics cookies.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.tiktok.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 0
- Tracking cookies
- 4
- Third-party hosts
- 9
- Cookies in total
- 11
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 4 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
None.
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- tiktokcdn-eu.com214 requestsUnclassified
sf16-website-login.neutral.tiktokcdn-eu.com, p16-common-sign.tiktokcdn-eu.com
- tiktokw.eu27 requestsUnclassified
mcs16-normal-no1a.tiktokw.eu, mcs-ie2.tiktokw.eu, webmssdk16-normal-no1a.tiktokw.eu, libraweb-ttp2.tiktokw.eu
- tiktokv.eu8 requestsUnclassified
mon16-normal-no1a.tiktokv.eu, starling-ttp2.tiktokv.eu
- Google6 requestsFunctional
storage.googleapis.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was ttwid, from TikTok, lasting about 12 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| msToken | Advertising | www.tiktok.com | 3 months |
| msToken | Advertising | tiktok.com | 10 days |
| msToken | Advertising | tiktokw.eu (third party) | 10 days |
| ttwid | Advertising | tiktok.com | 12 months |
| delay_guest_mode_vid | Unclassified | www.tiktok.com | 10 months |
| perf_feed_cache | Unclassified | www.tiktok.com | 7 days |
| tiktok_webapp_theme | Unclassified | www.tiktok.com | 10 months |
| tiktok_webapp_theme_source | Unclassified | www.tiktok.com | 10 months |
| tt_chain_token | Unclassified | tiktok.com | 6 months |
| tt_csrf_token | Unclassified | tiktok.com | Session |
| x-web-secsdk-uid | Unclassified | www.tiktok.com | Session |
The page also wrote 29 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
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