What does twitch.tv track?
Before any consent, twitch.tv loaded 1 tracking company and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 75% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.twitch.tv once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 13
- Cookies in total
- 7
Consent banner
The page loaded IAB TCF (unidentified platform), a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 1 tracking company still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
5 of the 8 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Amazon Advertising1 requestAdvertising
s.amazon-adsystem.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- jtvnw.net43 requestsUnclassified
static-cdn.jtvnw.net
- live-video.net16 requestsUnclassified
179ab9.rufio.hls.live-video.net, player.stats.live-video.net, prod.ivs-device-config.live-video.net, global.poe.live-video.net
- ttvnw.net16 requestsUnclassified
a7e9803d2255.j.cloudfront.hls.ttvnw.net, euc11.playlist.ttvnw.net, usher.ttvnw.net
- twitchcdn.net4 requestsUnclassified
k.twitchcdn.net
- cdndex.io1 requestUnclassified
reporting.cdndex.io
- Google1 requestFunctional
www.gstatic.com
- Cloudflare1 requestContent delivery
cloudflare.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| experiment_overrides | Unclassified | twitch.tv | 13 months |
| KP_UIDz-ssn | Unclassified | k.twitchcdn.net (third party) | 1 day |
| api_token | Functional | twitch.tv | 13 months |
| server_session_id | Functional | twitch.tv | Session |
| twitch.lohp.countryCode | Functional | twitch.tv | 13 months |
| unique_id | Functional | twitch.tv | 13 months |
| unique_id_durable | Functional | twitch.tv | 13 months |
The page also wrote 8 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.