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I appreciate the benefits of this service and understand the costs associated, but it’s a tough one to convince the client.
As a reseller, you can offer your customers up to 20% in discount.
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Moreover, if you haven’t bought in on why the GDPR and ePR are necessary, it will be hard for you to convince your customers to pay for their visitors security.
We can highly recommend Shoshana Zuboff’s book “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” which was published in English this January. It is a big work that took her 7 years to put together and it very thoroughly explains how we ended up where we are today – where everyone’s data and experiences are extracted as raw material and used for commercial purposes.
Yes, I was referring to the subscription fee.
It didn’t exactly go down well, trying to sell a monthly subscription fee for a cookie popup that drives most people mad.It’s not free for us to deliver a SaaS solution to > 140K websites. We are using resources to scan your website, provide a banner that loads fast for your end users (with servers around the world), storage of consents, a state-of-the-art cookie scanner, finishing off with a monthly report + more. You are paying for a service. There are of course other free options.
You, as the owner of a website, are responsible for all tracking going on, regardless if that tracking is coming from a 3rd party such as Facebook or Google (through plugins).
We believe that the best solution for WordPress would be something in the lines of what we have proposed here: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/44043.
It is not sustainable for you to update each plugin manually for all of your 100 websites. As you have probably realized by now, this is not Cookiebot’s fault. It seems that we are the only cookie plugin trying to help and solve the problem.
So what can you do to help yourself? You could try to raise your voice in the different channels, e.g in WP’s #core-privacy Slack channel, or in the bug tracker.
If you have developers, you are welcome to have them contribute to our Addons. It is also very easy to integrate with Cookiebot as described in our documentation.
Hi @rapportdesign,
I’ve been using Cookiebot since May 18 and signed up as a reseller, as we handle over 100 WordPress websites.
Despite the annoying monthly fees, it seemed like an automated solution to a confusing area of website development, which would save enough time to easily cover the Cookiebot fees.
Which fees are you talking about? The subscription fee, or?
After some further reading, it appears the more mainstream plugins have made the necessary changes, so their scripts don’t require modifying. It would be great if someone could confirm this?
Assuming the above is true, what are people doing about the less mainstream plugins? Constantly modifying upon every update? Getting rid of the plugin and finding an alternative that supports Cookiebot?
Some mainstream plugins claim to comply with the GDPR, some don’t. Nonetheless, you still need to inform your users about all tracking going on, through a cookie banner or similar.
Your best option is to use our Addons, which you can read more about here: https://github.com/CybotAS/CookiebotAddons
The addons are a free contribution from Cookiebot to the community. They will help you not having to manually change the code of other plugins. If we are missing a plugin, you can create an issue on the Github page, and we’ll have a look at it. To find the addons, go the to “Prior consent” menu tab of the Cookiebot plugin.
We have reached out to WordPress, to get a more permanent solution, but no progress so far: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/44043
I’m guessing the Necessary one is OK to be set without breaking GDPR.
I’m assuming the Monster Insights plugin that we use for Google Analytics isn’t compatible with Cookiebot and to avoid modifying repeatedly with every update, I should find an alternative solution for Google Analytics. This seems a bit crazy considering how mainstream Monster Insights is, but there are a lot of Google Analytics related Add-Ons showing up within the Cookiebot Prior Consent section.
Can anyone clarify anything here?MonsterInsights does integrate with Cookiebot, no code changes required. You need to get their eu-compliance addon:
https://www.monsterinsights.com/addon/eu-compliance/
I’m wondering why other Necessary cookies aren’t showing up straight away and why all 16 aren’t appearing when I accept all cookies. I’m assuming this is because the Cookiebot report provides details of every Cookie file across the site, whereas my Home page tests will only work with the cookie files being loaded by the Home page. Confirmation would be great!
That is correct. Cookies are set on different pages. The cookie report that we provide will give you more details on which pages they were found.
Hi @dan14
Thanks for reaching out, and thanks for using Cookiebot.
We do use a CDN for all static files associated with the banner and cookie declaration. The data inside the banner and declaration is dynamic, and needs to be pulled from our backend, which currently resides in North Europe. This can’t be hosted through a CDN. We are in the process of changing our infrastructure, and will be present in many regions (without you noticing, only improved latency for your users). This update is planned to be in production by the end of Q2, so hang on, and thanks for your understanding!
Hi @hweaves
Sorry for the late response.
Just checked the site you needed help with, and it seems that it works correctly.
I’ll go ahead and close the issue for now. Get back if you still need help.
My extension allows me to select which scripts are allowed and which aren’t. Therefore, it is possible to allow Google Analytics while disallowing Cookiebot. If the webmaster did choose an Opt-Out and not an Opt-In this would result in Cookies getting set, while neither Information about it nor a possibility to Opt-Out is provided.
According to our guidelines, in step 3, a cookie setting script tag (Google Analytics), which sets statistics cookies, should be tagged as such:
<script type="text/plain" data-cookieconsent="statistics"> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)})(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-00000000-0', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script>The
text/plainpart ensures that your browser does not render it as a script, but treats it as text. Once proper consent has been given through the cookie banner, the script will be injected to the DOM and executed by your browser.If the site you are referring to has implemented it according to the guidelines, then the GA script will not be executed, even if you allow it with uMatrix.
Moreover, Cookiebot scans your website once a month to detect any tracking going on, finishing off with a report.
Is providing the option of an Opt-Out resulting in possible non-legal situations sensible if the whole goal of your users is to avoid these? In my opinion with this setting a situation could arise in which your clients are entitled to pursue remedies against you (if cookiebot is setup correctly while using your Oup-Out setting).
See it like this: Is the firewall vendor responsible for you leaving all your ports open and using exploitable software? No they are not, but you have the means to use their software in order to prevent possible attacks. Same goes with Cookiebot. Use it as it’s supposed to be used and you are good.
first of all to clarify that: I’m not involved into the website I was browsing. I am a normal user
You have reviewed the Cookiebot WP plugin, but you are not a user of the plugin. Further more, if you are not affiliated with the website in question, you can’t know if it uses the plugin that you have reviewed or not. They may just as well be using Cookiebot directly through uc.js. You question would have been better suited in our community forum.
Hope this clarifies your concerns. If you have further questions we are happy to answer them.
Hi @reki1801
Cookiebot enables your website to become GDPR compliant, if our guidelines are followed. Please do remember that it is the responsibility of the website owner to implement Cookiebot correctly, thus staying compliant.
Since you don’t have scripts activated, Cookiebot wont work, as it is a javascript solution, and at the same time, you don’t have to worry about 3rd party cookies being set in your browser from scripts, since Google Analytics or any other script that sets 3rd party cookies wont be allowed to run either.
So, where is the problem?
The problem may be img tags, iframes or similar tags, that are setting cookies. If you have marked these up as described in our guidelines:
<img data-src"..">, then they wont be executed, and wont set cookies either.Now, what’s remaining is HTTP cookies set by the web-server itself. If you are the owner of that web-server, you are in full control of which cookies get set, and it is your responsibility to figure out whether you should set them or not.
If you have any questions do let us know.
Hi @emilbroll
Thanks for reaching out!
defer will be added as as an option in the plugin on next release.
We’ll update you here once it’s released.
That sounds weird! You probably made a mistake. Can you access the files directly through FTP or similar?
Hi @ufopsi,
You should be able to install and use Cookiebot on 5.x.
Currently we do not have addons for some 5.x blocks such as gutenberg youtube embed block, so Cookiebot won’t be able to block those cookies automatically until, until the addon is developed.
Merci beaucoup @momo-fr 🙂
We will add the translations shortly.
Hi @aberbenni
Yes, it should be compatible. Please try it out, and remember to clear your cache.
Hi @ewimhk,
I did not see an indication the trial version would last for 24 hrs
“we hope you’ve enjoyed using WordPress Cookiebot! Would you consider leaving us a review on WordPress.org?” doesn’t that mean the trial is over?The trial version is 1 month. That is just a message to ask you for a review. We do see how “enjoyed” could lead you to believe that your trial is over, perhaps we should change it to “enjoy”.
on computer: Loading speed of website slowed down to a crawl
pop up would slowly descend into place with a good message you can choose on the site
but the drag on the overall loading speed is worrisomeon mobile device: Loading speed of website slowed down to a crawl; at one point the error code popped up on mobile device that the internet was not connected, but it was connected…when it finally did connect to website, the pop down worked as it slowly appeared
If you are talking about https://coachingintoresults.com/, then there are probably many things you could do to improve load speed. Merely opening the site presents over 20 red errors in the developer console. Cookiebot loads asynchronously, which means that it loads parallel to everything else, and doesn’t block your page from loading. The loading speed of the script it self depends on your users location in the world. Our servers are based in Europe, so if your users are from Europe, the loading speed of the banner will be faster for them, compared to users from e.g. Asia. We will soon expand with servers all over the world, including Asia.
One last question: Is there a script like [cookie_declaration lang=””] for me to use in my custom cms site so I can have my cookies updated?
You can use data-culture with cd.js as well;
<script id="CookieDeclaration" src="https://consent.cookiebot.com/e89a4ff3-3f95-43d3-8505-ef94dd059c84/cd.js" data-culture="EN" type="text/javascript" async></script>Again, if you want it dynamically, you should get the current language through code. How to achieve that depends on which programming language you are using. If there is no value for it, you can extract it from the URL.
This is a javascript example just to demonstrate the approach:
var currentUserPagePathname = location.pathname.toLowerCase(); var currentUserPageCulture = "en"; //default to English if (currentUserPagePathname.indexOf("/fr")==0) { currentUserPageCulture = "fr"; } else if (currentUserPagePathname.indexOf("/es")==0) { currentUserPageCulture = "es"; }Do you have a way of getting the current culture of the page? English or Greek.
If so, you could use something like;
<?php $curLang = substr(get_locale()), 0, 2); ?> <script id="Cookiebot" data-culture="<?php echo $curLang?>" src="https://consent.cookiebot.com/uc.js" data-cbid="e89a4ff3-3f95-43d3-8505-ef94dd059c84" type="text/javascript" async></script>where
substr(get_locale()), 0, 2);would get either EN or EL.