What does wetransfer.com track?
Before any consent, wetransfer.com loaded 4 tracking companies and set 4 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 70% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading wetransfer.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 4
- Third-party hosts
- 17
- Cookies in total
- 15
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 4 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 8 companies it contacted before consent were functional companies.
- Microsoft Advertising5 requestsAdvertising
bat.bing.com, bat.bing.net
- Google Ads5 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- Microsoft Clarity4 requestsAnalytics
z.clarity.ms, www.clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytics | wetransfer.com | 13 months |
| _ga_0M019DTWVR | Analytics | wetransfer.com | 13 months |
| FPID | Analytics | wetransfer.com | 13 months |
| FPLC | Analytics | wetransfer.com | 1 day |
| _dd_s_v2 | Unclassified | wetransfer.com | 12 months |
| is_ivt | Unclassified | wetransfer.com | 2 days |
| wt_lang | Unclassified | wetransfer.com | 12 months |
| wt_lsid | Unclassified | wetransfer.com | 12 months |
| __stripe_mid | Functional | wetransfer.com | 12 months |
| __stripe_sid | Functional | wetransfer.com | Under a day |
| did | Functional | wetransfer.com | 3 months |
| did | Functional | auth.wetransfer.com | 3 months |
| g_state | Functional | wetransfer.com | 6 months |
| m | Functional | m.stripe.com (third party) | 13 months |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | wetransfer.com | 12 months |
The page also wrote 6 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.