What does tomsguide.com track?
Before any consent, tomsguide.com loaded 7 tracking companies and set 3 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 86% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.tomsguide.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 7
- Tracking cookies
- 3
- Third-party hosts
- 42
- Cookies in total
- 16
Consent banner
The page loaded Sourcepoint, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 7 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 14 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads2 requestsAdvertising
www3.doubleclick.net, pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- Skimlinks2 requestsAdvertising
r.skimresources.com
- Yahoo1 requestAdvertising
ads.servebom.com
- Google Analytics7 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Dotmetrics4 requestsAnalytics
uk-script.dotmetrics.net, rm-script.dotmetrics.net
- Marfeel3 requestsAnalytics
sdk.mrf.io, marfeelexperimentsexperienceengine.mrf.io
- Scorecard Research (Comscore)2 requestsAnalytics
sb.scorecardresearch.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- newsroom.bi5 requestsUnclassified
events.newsroom.bi, icu.newsroom.bi
- html-load.com2 requestsUnclassified
html-load.com, stg.html-load.com
- future.net.uk2 requestsUnclassified
shop.fie.future.net.uk
- Sourcepoint12 requestsConsent banner
cdn.privacy-mgmt.com
- Firework81 requestsFunctional
asset.fwcdn3.com, cdn1-api.fireworktv.com, cdn5.fireworktv.com, p2.fwpixel.com
- Google13 requestsFunctional
www.gstatic.com, news.google.com, marketingplatform.google.com, fonts.googleapis.com
- Future plc63 requestsContent delivery
cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net, vanilla.futurecdn.net, bordeaux.futurecdn.net, champagne.futurecdn.net
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| u | Advertising | servebom.com (third party) | 12 months |
| _ga | Analytics | tomsguide.com | 13 months |
| _ga_NJ39EHPREC | Analytics | tomsguide.com | 13 months |
| Flexi_Active_Campaigns | Unclassified | www.tomsguide.com | 12 months |
| FTR_Cache_Status | Unclassified | www.tomsguide.com | Session |
| FTR_Country_Code | Unclassified | www.tomsguide.com | Session |
| FTR_Vanilla_Session_ID | Unclassified | tomsguide.com | Session |
| FTR_Vanilla_User_Is_Active | Unclassified | tomsguide.com | Under a day |
| fw_abt | Unclassified | tomsguide.com | 30 days |
| fw_bid | Unclassified | tomsguide.com | 12 months |
| fw_chid | Unclassified | tomsguide.com | 12 months |
| fw_se | Unclassified | tomsguide.com | 12 months |
| fw_uid | Unclassified | tomsguide.com | 12 months |
| h_id | Unclassified | www.tomsguide.com | 1 day |
| consentUUID | Functional | tomsguide.com | 12 months |
| usprivacy | Functional | www.tomsguide.com | 12 months |
The page also wrote 15 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.