What does time.com track?
Before any consent, time.com loaded 5 tracking companies and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 78% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading time.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 5
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 12
- Cookies in total
- 1
Consent banner
The page loaded IAB TCF (unidentified platform), a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 5 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 8 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Integral Ad Science1 requestAdvertising
static.adsafeprotected.com
- Google Analytics4 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Cxense (Piano)2 requestsAnalytics
cdn.cxense.com
- Scorecard Research (Comscore)2 requestsAnalytics
sb.scorecardresearch.com
- Marfeel1 requestAnalytics
sdk.mrf.io
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | Functional | auth.time.com | Under a day |
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.