What does xda-developers.com track?
Before any consent, xda-developers.com loaded 5 tracking companies and set 2 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 78% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.xda-developers.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 5
- Tracking cookies
- 2
- Third-party hosts
- 31
- Cookies in total
- 11
Consent banner
The page loaded Sourcepoint, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 5 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 13 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Google Ads10 requestsAdvertising
ad.doubleclick.net, pagead2.googlesyndication.com, www.google.de, stats.g.doubleclick.net
- Valnet Ads8 requestsAdvertising
cdn.adsninja.ca, adsninja.ca, scribe.adforge.io
- Blockthrough5 requestsAdvertising
btloader.com, cdn.btloader.com, cdn.api.btloader.com, api.btloader.com
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, www.google-analytics.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Scorecard Research (Comscore)3 requestsAnalytics
sb.scorecardresearch.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- xdaimages.com63 requestsUnclassified
static0.xdaimages.com
- ad-delivery.net11 requestsUnclassified
ad-delivery.net
- dns-finder.com2 requestsUnclassified
ab.dns-finder.com
- 4strokemedia.com1 requestUnclassified
fluid.4strokemedia.com
- Sourcepoint15 requestsConsent banner
cdn.privacy-mgmt.com, launchpad.privacymanager.io, launchpad-wrapper.privacymanager.io, geo.privacymanager.io
- Google3 requestsFunctional
accounts.google.com, news.google.com
- Valnet5 requestsContent delivery
images.valnetcdn.com, cdn.sentinelpro.com, secure.valnetinc.com, valnetv3.sentinelpro.com
- jsDelivr1 requestContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
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 | xda-developers.com | 13 months |
| _ga_CW1BQM4JMY | Analytics | xda-developers.com | 13 months |
| _scor_uid | Unclassified | xda-developers.com | 13 months |
| _sp_enable_dfp_personalized_ads | Unclassified | xda-developers.com | 3 months |
| articlesLimitDepth | Unclassified | www.xda-developers.com | Under a day |
| promotionVisitedLinks | Unclassified | www.xda-developers.com | 13 months |
| sentinelbi_utmData | Unclassified | www.xda-developers.com | 13 months |
| valnet-identity-sync | Unclassified | www.xda-developers.com | 13 months |
| viewType | Unclassified | www.xda-developers.com | Session |
| consentUUID | Functional | www.xda-developers.com | 12 months |
| g_state | Functional | www.xda-developers.com | 6 months |
The page also wrote 12 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
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- 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.