What does viber.com track?
Before any consent, viber.com loaded 3 tracking companies and set 4 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 58% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.viber.com/en once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 4
- Third-party hosts
- 13
- Cookies in total
- 7
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, 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
2 of the 6 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de, ad.doubleclick.net
- Google Analytics4 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Mixpanel1 requestAnalytics
cdn.mxpnl.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | Advertising | viber.com | 3 months |
| _ga | Analytics | viber.com | 13 months |
| _ga_B12V91DLM8 | Analytics | viber.com | 13 months |
| mp_a9b47cf8f1246dc2742ec37dd46c9409_mixpanel | Analytics | viber.com | 12 months |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | www.viber.com | 12 months |
| pll_language | Functional | www.viber.com | 12 months |
| RT | Functional | viber.com | 7 days |
The page also wrote 1 key 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.