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Hi! I have always used Spam Shield (sorry!) but just identified a big issue with it, in lieu of GDPR. I have installed a GDPR script and like the majority of them, they require cookies to be identified in advance, otherwise, they get blocked. Unfortunately, SS continually creates a series of alpha numeric cookie strings, making it impossible to confirm them in advance. The issue appears when a visitor tries to post a comment against a blog post. Instead of updating teh database, it just returns a page with an error message. Although this can be due to plugin conflicts (and there appears to be a few), in this instance, it was due to the GDPR script blocking the SS cookies, therefore creating teh issue. Am I right in thinking, as per your previous response in this post, that Akismet does not set any cookies and, therefore, I should not experience the same issue that I am experiencing with SS?

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by bsthp.

bsthp – may I ask what GDPR script you are using? Cheers

Thanks for getting back. https://www.civicuk.com/cookie-control

bsthp – sorry I’m not an Akismet plugin author, I presume Stephane will reply to your initial question in due course. But may I check something with you in the meantime? When you’re using Cookie Control, are you going into the code for each plugin and manually pulling any cookie scripts into Cookie Control? So that Cookie Control can control the on/off for each script on behalf of each plugin?

In my research of GDPR and cookie consent, it seems developer skills are very much needed to understand and pull code from the other plugins into the Cookie Control plugin? And this process then also needs to be repeated on updates? I’m a heavy WordPress user with good design / HTML / CSS skills but I’m not a backend developer (that’s why I use WordPress).

johnnyjekyll, thanks for your reply. I have since decided to use another spam plugin and it is compatible with my GDPR script i.e. it does not set cookies, to enable it to work. Looking to the future, it would help if plugin authors made it easier to identify their cookie scripts and explain how they can be switched on/off.