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Technical audit · 2026-05-13

euronews.com

Euronews — Europe's Largest News Television Channel and Online Publication
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Europe's largest news channel — 335 requests, 45 domains. A Didomi CMP is present, but advertising infrastructure (GPT, Criteo, Amazon Ads, DoubleVerify) loads roughly 700 ms before it's ready. The policy discloses transmission of email addresses to LiveRamp.

Timeline of the leak

+192 ms · before the banner
DoubleVerify (vtrk.dv.tech) — brand safety and viewability tracking. Status 0.
+218 ms · banner
Didomi CSS loads — the banner begins initializing.
+218 ms · before the banner
GPT (securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/gpt.js) — Google's advertising infrastructure.
+307 ms · before the banner
Google Ads (pagead2.googlesyndication.com).
+308 ms · before the banner
Criteo Publisher Tag (Prebid).
+846 ms · before the banner
Chartbeat — media analytics.
+926 ms · before the banner
Adobe Launch (assets.adobedtm.com) — tag management.
+1709 ms · before the banner
LiveRamp Launchpad — identity resolution. Transmission of email addresses to LiveRamp.

Declared versus actual

✓ LiveRamp — explicitly mentioned in the policy — declared
✓ AAID/IDFA — explicitly mentioned in the policy — declared
+ html-load.com — not declared
+ ml314.com — identity resolution — not declared
+ HadronID (cdn.hadronid.net) — not declared

Transfer timings

+192 ms vtrk.dv.tech

DoubleVerify blocking time

+218 ms securepubads.g.doubleclick.net

GPT — advertising infrastructure

+308 ms static.criteo.net

Criteo Prebid

+1709 ms launchpad-wrapper.privacymanager.io

LiveRamp identity resolution

Detected trackers

Indicators of GDPR non-compliance

Context

Euronews is Europe’s largest news television channel and online publication, headquartered in Lyon. Owned by the NBCUniversal (Comcast) media group. Broadcasts in 12 languages, reaching over 400 million households. HAR: 335 requests, 45 domains. Session on the homepage.

Didomi is present — but doesn’t block

Didomi is a well-regarded French CMP. Euronews uses it. The problem isn’t the choice of CMP, but its configuration: GPT, DoubleVerify, Criteo, and Amazon Ads load at the same time Didomi initializes, rather than after consent is obtained. The gap between the first advertising request (+192 ms) and the banner being ready is roughly 700 ms.

Connatix — video advertising

capi.connatix.com, vid.connatix.com, cds.connatix.com — Connatix, an American video advertising platform. 43 requests per session. Euronews’s video player and ad breaks run through Connatix. imasdk.googleapis.com — Google’s IMA SDK for video advertising.

LiveRamp — an explicit admission in the policy

The policy states directly: an email address submitted during registration or a newsletter signup is hashed and transmitted to LiveRamp for identity resolution. This means Euronews visitors can be identified and tracked on other sites using LiveRamp, via hashed email matching.

Adobe Analytics via omtrdc.net

euronewsgroup.d3.sc.omtrdc.net — Adobe Analytics, American enterprise analytics (Adobe Experience Cloud). Visit data goes to Adobe’s infrastructure in the USA. Running in parallel with Chartbeat — two analytics systems at once.

Conclusion

Euronews shows a standard picture for a large media outlet with programmatic advertising: a Didomi CMP is present, but the advertising infrastructure loads ahead of it. 45 domains, LiveRamp for identity resolution, Connatix for video advertising, Adobe Analytics and Chartbeat running simultaneously. The privacy policy honestly discloses LiveRamp — a rarity among media sites.

Evidence
Original (audit)
HAR file: global/euronews-com-2026-05-13.har
Re-check snapshot
Awaiting changes
HAR files are stored on EU infrastructure (Proton Drive). SHA-256 is published for integrity verification.
IMPORTANT: before filing a complaint with the regulator, first contact the company directly and give it 30 days to respond. Without this step the regulator may reject the complaint. Details and a template letter to the company are in the Methodology.
Ready-to-send complaint letter

Where to file: Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL) — cnil.fr

To: Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL)
From: [Your name], [contact email]

1. Subject of the complaint
I am filing a complaint regarding the processing of my personal data by the website euronews.com.

2. Circumstances
I visited the website euronews.com and found indications that the processing of my personal data does not comply with the GDPR. The technical analysis published on gdpru.eu on 13 May 2026 (open methodology, reproducible measurements) documents the following indications:

1) vtrk.dv.tech (+192 ms), html-load.com (+217 ms), GPT (+218 ms), JW Player (+223 ms), ad-delivery.net (+273 ms), Google Ads (+307 ms), Criteo (+308 ms) — all load before the Didomi CMP. A critical gap: advertising infrastructure is initialized roughly 700 ms before the banner appears.

2) The Didomi CMP (+218 ms) loads at the same time as the advertising services, but does not block them. GPT, DoubleVerify, Criteo, and Amazon Ads are active before consent.

3) The policy explicitly states that email addresses are transmitted to LiveRamp in hashed form for identity matching. LiveRamp is used for cross-site visitor tracking via hashed identifiers.

Full technical documentation is published at: https://gdpru.eu/en/audits/euronews-com/

3. Provisions violated
GDPR Art. 6(1), Art. 5(1)(a); GDPR Art. 7; GDPR Art. 13(1)(e) — LiveRamp

4. Request
I request that you investigate the violations described and apply the measures provided for in Article 58(2) GDPR.

5. Attachments
The full evidence base — the HAR file, its SHA-256 checksum and the quotation from the site's privacy policy documenting the stated contradiction — is published and verifiable at the link in point 2 above.

[Date]                                    [Signature / name]