Consent Mode HQ

Google kept third-party cookies and wound down Privacy Sandbox. The deprecation deadline everyone planned around is gone — but the consent requirement it was masking never was.

EDPB Opinion 08/2024 is still the operative text on pay-or-okay walls, and it only targets large online platforms. The broader guidelines remain unpublished. What that means in practice.

Klaro has no built-in Consent Mode integration. Here is the exact wiring — default denied before load, a watcher on both consent events, and the returning-visitor bug most guides ship.

Session replay is legal — if it never runs before consent. The exact Hotjar and Microsoft Clarity settings, the GTM gating pattern, and how to verify nothing records pre-consent.

Cookiepedia is OneTrust's cookie lookup site. What its data is, five things an entry cannot tell you, how to look a cookie up yourself in DevTools, and open alternatives.

US state privacy laws 2026 now cover more than half the US population, yet most cookie banners are still configured as if only California exists. Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas,…

Cookie compliance lawsuits are no longer just a concern for Fortune 500 companies. A growing industry of privacy-focused law firms and automated scanning services now crawl websites systematically — hunting…

The CCPA vs CPRA 2026 gap is wider than most California businesses realise. CPRA — which amended CCPA and became fully enforceable in 2023 — introduced new rights and obligations…

The real cost of building a consent management platform vs. buying one — initial build, cookie data, ongoing maintenance, and the legal risk a banner alone carries.

A practical comparison of open-source and self-hosted consent management platforms (Klaro and friends): what you control, what you take on, and the compliance gap a CMP alone never closes.