What does webmd.com track?
Before any consent, webmd.com loaded 2 tracking companies and set 1 advertising or analytics cookie.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 56% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.webmd.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 13
- Cookies in total
- 12
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 2 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 6 companies it contacted before consent were consent banner companies.
- Google Ads1 requestAdvertising
www.googleadservices.com
- Adobe11 requestsAnalytics
assets.adobedtm.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- wbmdstatic.com61 requestsUnclassified
img.lb.wbmdstatic.com, img.wbmdstatic.com, img-embody.lb.wbmdstatic.com, img.lb.staging.wbmdstatic.com
- OneTrust13 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- TrustArc2 requestsConsent banner
preferences.trustarc.com, privacy-policy.truste.com
- Google9 requestsFunctional
www.gstatic.com, www.google.com, fonts.gstatic.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was AMCV_16AD4362526701720A490D45%40AdobeOrg, from Adobe, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMCV_16AD4362526701720A490D45%40AdobeOrg | Advertising | webmd.com | 13 months |
| aam | Unclassified | webmd.com | 6 months |
| gtinfo | Unclassified | webmd.com | Session |
| initial_url_path | Unclassified | www.webmd.com | Session |
| kndctr_16AD4362526701720A490D45_AdobeOrg_cluster | Unclassified | webmd.com | Under a day |
| kndctr_16AD4362526701720A490D45_AdobeOrg… | Unclassified | webmd.com | 13 months |
| lrt_wrk | Unclassified | webmd.com | Session |
| ui | Unclassified | webmd.com | Session |
| visited | Unclassified | webmd.com | Session |
| __cf_bm | Functional | www.webmd.com | Under a day |
| BIGipServerredirects.ma1.webmd.com-443 | Functional | webmd.com | Session |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | webmd.com | 13 months |
The page also wrote 2 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.