wet_cookie_consent: GDPR cookie consent for Textpattern CMS

wet · Today 17:14:48

wet_cookie_consent adds a lightweight, configurable cookie consent notice to your Textpattern site. Visitors can accept or reject cookies; their choice is stored. The notice may include a link to your privacy policy page.

Text configured by a textpack of your choosing. Minimal integration effort.

Bloke · Today 18:19:32

At last! I traditionally (ab)use oui_cookie for this purpose, but it always seems hackish or overkill to use simply for consent purposes. To have a dedicated plugin is going to be a superb addition. Thank you.

jakob · Today 20:43:47

Do I understand correctly, that this basically makes “okay” necessary to dismiss the consent box? There’s only the option “OK” as far as I can see.

Bloke wrote #342582:

I traditionally (ab)use oui_cookie for this purpose, but it always seems hackish or overkill to use simply for consent purposes.

I’m guessing you may still need oui_cookie to act on whether or not consent has been given (i.e. the cookie exists or not), and if you want to give users the opportunity to change their cookie settings at a later date.

wet · Today 21:03:57

jakob wrote #342583:

Do I understand correctly, that this basically makes “okay” necessary to dismiss the consent box?

Yes, it’s minimal by design. I don’t see the point of those cookie consent quagmires that seem to be everywhere these days, with lots of options that no one cares about, and shielding divs that hide the content until you disable uBlock because some of these shields are on a blocklist, and then some more. First visit, will never come back, thank you.

…if you want to give users the opportunity to change their cookie settings at a later date.

Is this a real thing? Do these people exist in real life?

Bloke · Today 21:30:34

wet wrote #342584:

Is this a real thing? Do these people exist in real life?

Not so much to change my settings, but those ridiculous sites that have no Reject All options and show you 400 “partners” and 250 more that have some vague “legitimate interest” in your data, then yes I have been known to go through and turn off all the toggles by hand.

The worst one was when I did that on a newly installed Android game, pressed Save My Choices and was greeted with a popup that said I would be unable to run the game unless I accepted the advertiser tracking cookies! The illusion of choice, haha.

Needless to say, that game was uninstalled pronto.

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