Setting GDPR Cookie

  • Resolved Lindsay Rose Ryan

    (@mtlindsayroseryan)


    4 years, 9 months ago

    We have the GDPR consent option enabled and we would like to set the cookie in advance when a user visits our site through our existing cookie consent banner. I have set the cookie referenced in the documentation when a user accepts cookies when they first visit our site, but that does not prevent the youtube playlists from showing the opt-in as expected. Is there another cookie being set that the plugin checks before showing the consent overlay over the videos?

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  • Plugin Author embedplus

    (@embedplus)

    Can you provide the sample code you’re using to set the ytprefs_gdpr_consent cookie? Its value should be set to 1, in order to reveal YouTube videos.

    Thread Starter Lindsay Rose Ryan

    (@mtlindsayroseryan)

    Thank you for confirming that setting it to 1 is all that be needed! That is what I was doing but after you confirmed I did further testing and realized what the problem was.

    For anyone else trying to do the same using the Cookie Notice plugin, as long as the user accepts cookies before they get to a page with video content just setting the cookie works. Just be sure to test whether they are already on a video page when accepting, if so you may need to force a reload of the page for the videos to display. This may be specific to how the Cookie Notice plugin handles the JS we provide.

    Plugin Author embedplus

    (@embedplus)

    Setting the value to 1 on the server side (i.e. in PHP) instead of JS, might entirely avoid a need to reload.

    Thread Starter Lindsay Rose Ryan

    (@mtlindsayroseryan)

    Thank you! I will give that a try because the extra reload will affect our analytics on those pages.

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