medium.com privacy report

Privacy audit of medium.com. Grade E (33/100). 19 tracker requests from 5 owners across 1 jurisdiction. See the full breakdown and how to ask for deletion.

Last audited today Re-audit

E
33 / 100
Poor
Privacy
0/100
Data flow
48/100
Security
75/100
Practices
37/100

Trackers detected on medium.com

We found 19 tracker requests across 13 hostnames, controlled by 5 distinct companies.

OwnerCountryCategoryRequests
Cloudflare US Analytics 8
Google US Advertising 7
YouTube (Google) US Third-party embed 2
Unclassified (EasyPrivacy) — Advertising 1
Unclassified ad-tech — Advertising 1

Where medium.com sends your data

Tracker hosts on this site are controlled from these jurisdictions:

  • United States CLOUD Act Schrems II risk: high 17 requests

Learn more: the US CLOUD Act, Schrems II, the Digital Markets Act.

What this means for you

Security headers

HTTPS enforced: yes. Security headers score: 91/100.

No major issues detected in HTTP security headers.

Take action

Delete your medium.com account

Generate a GDPR Article 17 erasure letter pre-filled for medium.com.

Run a fresh audit

Re-run the live tracker scan on medium.com right now.

Audit your own site

Paste any URL and get the same report card in 10 seconds.

Recently audited sites

This report was generated by the Dazr website privacy check. The audit fetches the public home page of medium.com, identifies tracker requests, classifies their owners and jurisdictions, and grades the result. Reports refresh when re-run via the live tool.

Audited 5 October 2026. Last cached 5 October 2026.