Scanned on 16 February 2026 at 06:27 UTC· 7 total scans
As of , rtl.nl has a GDPR compliance score of 50/100 with 6 pre-consent tracking violations detected.
Only Privacy Score 100 means full compliance. These violations mean that before you could even click the Cookie Consent banner, this website already collected your personal data and shared it with third parties. Learn why this matters (our blog) →
Who is responsible? The website owner is solely responsible for these violations and in general often benefits monetarily (directly or indirectly) from collecting and sharing your data without your consent.
Tracks your browsing behaviour to build a profile and serve targeted ads before you give consent.
Collects usage statistics (pages visited, clicks, session duration) without consent.
Low-severity concerns: external fonts, empty tag containers, WebSocket connections, and third-party storage.
Services and cookies that comply with GDPR requirements. No consent needed.
Pending classification by our team. No impact on your privacy score.
These items are pending classification. No impact on your privacy score.
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rtl.nl has a GDPR compliance score of 50/100.
A score between 50 and 79 indicates moderate GDPR compliance issues. Analytics trackers or advertising scripts are likely loading before user consent, which may result in regulatory attention.
33 trackers detected loading before user consent:
Legal basis: This violates GDPR Article 6(1)(a), ePrivacy Directive Article 5(3), and CJEU Planet49 (C-673/17). Advertising trackers profile visitors for targeted ads, which needs the visitor's consent. The Court of Justice of the EU held in Planet49 (C-673/17, 1 October 2019) that a pre-ticked checkbox is not valid consent: consent requires an active choice by the visitor.
Legal basis: This violates GDPR Article 6(1)(a) and ePrivacy Directive Article 5(3). Analytics trackers read information from the visitor's device and send it to the analytics provider together with the visitor's IP address, which can be personal data under the GDPR. The ePrivacy Directive (Article 5(3)) requires consent before that happens unless it is strictly necessary for a service the visitor asked for. Analytics generally does not qualify; only narrowly configured audience measurement can, under national guidance such as the CNIL's.
This GDPR compliance scan of rtl.nl was performed by GDPR Scanner, a pre-consent privacy scanning tool. The scan captures all trackers, cookies, and third-party scripts that load before a user clicks any consent button.
Under GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), websites must obtain explicit consent before processing personal data. Any tracker or cookie that fires before consent is a potential violation of EU privacy law.
A privacy score of 100/100 means the website loads zero trackers and zero tracking cookies before the user gives consent. This is the standard required by GDPR Article 5(1)(a) and Article 7.
Essential cookies (session management, security tokens) and first-party functional cookies do not incur penalties, as they are covered by the legitimate interest legal basis. See an example: playhth.com scores 100/100.
Legal basis: This violates ePrivacy Directive Article 5(3) and CJEU Planet49 (C-673/17). The Planet49 ruling confirmed that Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive applies to information stored on or accessed from a user's device, whether or not it is personal data. A third-party script writing to or reading from localStorage or sessionStorage before consent falls within it.
Legal basis: This violates ePrivacy Directive Article 5(3) and CJEU Planet49 (C-673/17). The Planet49 ruling confirmed that Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive applies to information stored on or accessed from a user's device, whether or not it is personal data. A third-party script writing to or reading from localStorage or sessionStorage before consent falls within it.
Legal basis: This violates ePrivacy Directive Article 5(3) and CJEU Planet49 (C-673/17). The Planet49 ruling confirmed that Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive applies to information stored on or accessed from a user's device, whether or not it is personal data. A third-party script writing to or reading from localStorage or sessionStorage before consent falls within it.
Legal basis: This violates ePrivacy Directive Article 5(3) and CJEU Planet49 (C-673/17). The Planet49 ruling confirmed that Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive applies to information stored on or accessed from a user's device, whether or not it is personal data. A third-party script writing to or reading from localStorage or sessionStorage before consent falls within it.
No tracking cookies set before consent were counted as violations.
rtl.nl has 6 GDPR compliance violations with 33 trackers loading before user consent. This level of non-compliance carries meaningful regulatory risk.
Under GDPR Article 83(5), fines can reach €20 million or 4% of worldwide annual turnover, whichever is higher. Cookie consent failures are also fined under national law: the CNIL fined Google €150 million (2021), Microsoft €60 million (2022) and SHEIN €150 million (2025).
Implementation of a properly configured Consent Management Platform (CMP) that blocks all non-essential scripts until consent is obtained is the recommended remediation step.
rtl.nl scores 50/100 with 6 violation(s) detected. Trackers or cookies were found loading before user consent.
Our scan detected 51 tracker(s) loading before consent, including cookiepro-onetrust, rackcdn-com, google-tag-manager.
Yes, 9 cookie(s) were detected before the user interacted with any consent banner.
rtl.nl has a GDPR compliance score of 50/100 as of 16 February 2026. A score of 100 means no trackers or cookies that require consent were detected before consent. rtl.nl currently has 6 violation(s) affecting its score.
rtl.nl should implement a Consent Management Platform (CMP) that blocks all non-essential trackers and cookies until the visitor gives explicit consent. This includes configuring tag managers like Google Tag Manager to use consent-aware triggers, self-hosting external fonts, and auditing all third-party scripts. After making changes, re-scan with GDPR Scanner to check the result.