Suggestion for a better solution according with Italian cookie-law

  • Dexter800

    (@punxsutawney-phil)


    9 years, 9 months ago

    I know you think it’s a bad idea to block site’s parts to make’em not to set cookies till the user’s consent. I agree it’s a fucking bad idea, but it’s also the rule in Italy.
    The Italian Cookie-law says you must block every tracking cookie untill the user give his consent by clicking the bar button or scroll the page. Man, I know it’s ridiculous, but that’s it.
    Your plugin is very nice and lightweight, I’d want to use it, but in Italy it’s quite useless the way it is.
    I suggest you to think about adding a blocking shortcode to wrap with the cookie-setting snippets, that would be awsome, even for a Pro version. Many Italians would pay for it.
    Thank you.
    P.S. I got some compatibility issue with iPad2.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/cookie-law-info/

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  • Richard

    (@richardashby)

    Hi

    Regarding blocking functionality- well, I have thought about that over the last 3 years but it’s custom code that each website owner needs to add to their website and each time a plugin, theme or even WP core itself is updated you’d need to audit your whole site again and start over. Not good! I might offer that feature but it’s a false sense of security to think this is blocking your cookies. How exactly would you block social media scripts from dropping cookies on your site via an iframe? Those are the real “bad guy” cookies the law is getting at and I don’t see an effective way of preventing them for the majority of WP sites.

    Separately, if you have an issue with ipad2 please post a separate topic and tell me what the actual issue is, also be sure to include your URL so I can check.

    Cheers

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