What does xbox.com track?
Before any consent, xbox.com loaded 1 tracking company and set 3 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 75% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.xbox.com/de-DE once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 3
- Third-party hosts
- 13
- Cookies in total
- 13
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 5 companies it contacted before consent were content delivery companies.
- Adobe14 requestsAnalytics
assets.adobedtm.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- xboxservices.com45 requestsUnclassified
cms-assets.xboxservices.com, assets.xboxservices.com, emerald.xboxservices.com
- Microsoft30 requestsFunctional
uhf.microsoft.com, www.microsoft.com, c.s-microsoft.com, browser.events.data.microsoft.com
- Cloudflare1 requestContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.com
- Microsoft Azure1 requestContent delivery
uhf-exp-fd-gbcrdgggfbggh0g3.b02.azurefd.net
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was MC1, from Microsoft, lasting about 12 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| MC1 | Advertising | microsoft.com (third party) | 12 months |
| MSFPC | Advertising | www.xbox.com | 12 months |
| MUID | Advertising | xbox.com | 12 months |
| aka_locale | Unclassified | www.xbox.com | Session |
| MSPRequ | Unclassified | login.live.com (third party) | Session |
| OParams | Unclassified | login.live.com (third party) | Session |
| uaid | Unclassified | login.live.com (third party) | Session |
| ai_session | Functional | www.xbox.com | Under a day |
| esctx-szqe4Nay3iE | Functional | login.microsoftonline.com (third party) | Session |
| fpc | Functional | login.microsoftonline.com (third party) | 30 days |
| MS0 | Functional | microsoft.com (third party) | Under a day |
| stsservicecookie | Functional | login.microsoftonline.com (third party) | Session |
| x-ms-gateway-slice | Functional | login.microsoftonline.com (third party) | Session |
The page also wrote 3 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.