miichaaeel

Hello

I have already watched and read through all the videos and your documentaries several times and in detail before I registered here. I don’t want to bother you unnecessarily as you provide a free plugin, which is great.

I think the two points are not working properly – but I was able to find a workaround and we can check off the matter here. Even if it’s not the absolute best case scenario. But if it’s really necessary, I would otherwise choose a paid CMP platform. I can’t have the same expectations of a free plugin.

If it helps you, here are my findings – with the following settings.

• We use your plugin with the Google Tag Manager integration (Consent Mode v2 advanced) – this is necessary because our customers also want to track cookieless if there is no consent yet. Firing Google Analytics only after consent has been given is therefore NOT an option.
• The setup works so far. Tracking with GCS 100 and cookieless before consent and tracking with GCS 111 and cookies after consent (with the limitation mentioned below -> banner Initialization to 0)

What does not work:

• If the initialization delay is not set to 0 for the banner, the page_view is also captured with the wrong GCS for consent. In my opinion this is a bug. If I change this from the default 2000 to 0, then it works.
• For the cookies, only the _ga is deleted, but not the _ga – why is not clear to me. Both are set via the GTM. It is strange to me, that one of this can be deleted – and the other not?

For the complete deletion of cookies we have integrated our own Javascript – unfortunately this is now fired every time the page is loaded and the value thirdparty is set to 0 in the moove_gdpr_popup cookie. Unfortunately, there is no cookie_consent_update on save, because everything is then reset to the initial consent (everything denied). There is then only a reload of the page but no cookie_consent_update that could trigger a trigger.

<script>

(function() {
    var cookies = document.cookie.split(";");
    var domainParts = window.location.hostname.split(".");
    var domain = domainParts.slice(-2).join(".");
    
    // List of paths to delete the cookies from
    var paths = ["/", "/path1", "/path2"]; // add any other specific paths here

    for (var i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++) {
        var cookie = cookies[i];
        var eqPos = cookie.indexOf("=");
        var name = eqPos > -1 ? cookie.substr(0, eqPos) : cookie;
        name = name.trim();
        
        if (name.match(/^(_ga|_gid|_gat)/)) {
            for (var j = 0; j < paths.length; j++) {
                var path = paths[j];
                document.cookie = name + "=;expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT;path=" + path + ";";
                document.cookie = name + "=;expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT;path=" + path + ";domain=." + domain + ";";
                document.cookie = name + "=;expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT;path=" + path + ";domain=" + window.location.hostname + ";";
            }
        }
    }
})();
</script>

Last week I checked everything in detail and now this week there is yet another misbehaviour.

I accept the cookies and then change the page. Then the page_view is recorded there again with the GCS G100 instead of G111 as it should be (with the Google Chrome Addon Analytics debugger).

I’m starting to get a bit perplexed. What else could I do?

I still have the feeling that the script is sometimes executed too late despite being “static”. In the example (page mentioned in the first post of the forum topic), the collect script from Google analytics is loaded first with G100 and only later a second time with G111. I suspect that the consent update takes place too late. Is there any way to prioritise this further?

Another guess in finding a solution: can it have something to do with the fact that if I leave the “Banner Initiation Delay” at the default 2000ms, everything is loaded with a delay and the Google Analytics tag is already fired before the consent is updated properly? If I set this value to 0, it somehow seems to work a bit more reliably, at least for the moment.

I have adjusted the 3 options on the page mentioned as suggested

• Force Reload =>enabled
• “Script Insertion Method” => STATIC
• “Cookie Removal” => DYNAMIC

The issure was specifically about the fact that the page_view was not recorded correctly on subsequently visited pages (or only with G100). I suspect that with “dynamic” script insertion the consent is loaded too late. This can indeed be fixed with “Script Insertion Method” => STATIC. So this issue is solved.

But then… what does not work, however, is that the cookies are consistently deleted again after the revoke of consent (reject after accepted before). The cookies do disappear briefly in the developer tools. However, one of them reappears immediately.

_ga -> works correctly -> is removed permanently
_ga_xxx -> appears again -> is not removed permanently

What could be the reason for this? I did not have this effect when I set both options to “dynamic”.

Update: I think it has to do with the fact that I set “Script Insertion” and “Cookie Removal” to dynamic.

If I set them back to static, then the respective code (GCS G100 or GCS G111) is correct throughout the page_view. Then, however, the cookies are no longer deleted when I “Revoke the Consent”, as is the case when I have both set to “dynamic”.

So I have the choice that either the cookies are completely removed again (2x dynamic) or that I get the correct GCS (2x static). Both not optimal ??

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

All good from my side, works very good now! Thank you!

Same here – we use the plugin for all our clients’ site. And we love the use and simplicity of the plugin! Thank you very much for your work. We appreciate it a lot.

We have exactly the same problem as discussed in this thread. It is really difficult to click on the linked area. In our browser the clickable area is not behind the +- but on the left corner above the icon – and its very small – the customer have a problem with this. We hope with the update this week, this is also resolved.

Best regards and thank you again for you work!