What does vanityfair.com track?
Before any consent, vanityfair.com loaded 3 tracking companies and set 1 advertising or analytics cookie.
That's more tracking companies than 58% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.vanityfair.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 16
- Cookies in total
- 9
Consent banner
The page loaded IAB TCF (unidentified platform), a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 3 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 9 companies it contacted before consent were content delivery companies.
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Yahoo2 requestsAdvertising
s.yimg.com, 3p-geo.yahoo.com
- Google Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- justwatch.com1 requestUnclassified
widget.justwatch.com
- Gladly6 requestsFunctional
cdn.gladly.com
- Google1 requestFunctional
apis.google.com
- Condé Nast9 requestsContent delivery
fides.condenastdigital.com, globalservices.conde.digital, privacy.condenastdigital.com, ads-static.conde.digital
- Amazon Web Services3 requestsContent delivery
dcdcsl55x0411.cloudfront.net
- Cloudflare1 requestContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was A3, from Yahoo, lasting about 12 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| A3 | Advertising | yahoo.com (third party) | 12 months |
| CN_geo_country_code | Unclassified | vanityfair.com | 6 months |
| CN_in_visit_m | Unclassified | www.vanityfair.com | Under a day |
| CN_journey_bucket | Unclassified | vanityfair.com | 12 months |
| CN_segments | Unclassified | vanityfair.com | 6 months |
| CN_visits_m | Unclassified | www.vanityfair.com | 30 days |
| CN_xid | Unclassified | vanityfair.com | 6 months |
| CN_xid_refresh | Unclassified | vanityfair.com | 12 months |
| xid1 | Unclassified | vanityfair.com | Under a day |
The page also wrote 13 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.