What does welt.de track?
Before any consent, welt.de loaded 0 tracking companies and set 4 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's right in line with other .de sites we scanned: the typical one among 60 sites also loaded 0 tracking companies.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.welt.de once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 0
- Tracking cookies
- 4
- Third-party hosts
- 8
- Cookies in total
- 12
Consent banner
The page loaded Sourcepoint, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it.
Companies contacted before consent
5 of the 6 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
None.
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- asadcdn.com35 requestsUnclassified
www.asadcdn.com
- axelspringer.de3 requestsUnclassified
rusty-heartbeat.services.ps.axelspringer.de, orchestra-flows.prod.pss.axelspringer.de
- cuddlybeside.com2 requestsUnclassified
edge.cuddlybeside.com, stg.edge.cuddlybeside.com
- gmx.net1 requestUnclassified
login.gmx.net
- web.de1 requestUnclassified
login.web.de
- Ringier Axel Springer2 requestsContent delivery
simetra.tracking.ringieraxelspringer.tech
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was AMCV_B21B678254F601E20A4C98A5%40AdobeOrg, from Adobe, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMCV_B21B678254F601E20A4C98A5%40AdobeOrg | Advertising | welt.de | 13 months |
| AMCVS_B21B678254F601E20A4C98A5%40AdobeOrg | Advertising | welt.de | Session |
| s_ecid | Advertising | welt.de | 12 months |
| s_cc | Analytics | welt.de | Session |
| _sp_su | Unclassified | welt.de | 12 months |
| cmp_cv_list | Unclassified | welt.de | 30 days |
| csrf_token_813e7fa20460eee846d207d1160337747401c… | Unclassified | welt.de | 12 months |
| ea_uuid | Unclassified | welt.de | 13 months |
| PS_ROLLOUT_SEG | Unclassified | welt.de | 12 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | consumer-api.prod.auth.welt.de | Under a day |
| __cflb | Functional | consumer-api.prod.auth.welt.de | Under a day |
| utag_main | Functional | welt.de | 12 months |
The page also wrote 4 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.