Articles covering cookie audits, compliance scans and automated tools used to detect cookies, trackers and consent-related issues.
Modern websites are powered by a complicated mix of analytics pixels, marketing scripts and plug‑ins. Each of these pieces of code can drop cookies, store local data and send information about your visitors to third‑party servers. In the European Union and many other jurisdictions, cookies and other online identifiers are considered personal data. The GDPR … Read more
Automated cookie scans are useful, but they’re often misunderstood. A scan can reliably prove what tracking technologies are present (cookies, scripts, network endpoints, storage artifacts). What it cannot safely assume is whether those trackers are consistently suppressed when users decline consent, or whether Consent Mode signals are correctly propagated in production. In 2026, enforcement expectations … Read more
For many teams, a cookie audit is treated as a one-time checkbox exercise. Install a CMP, configure a banner, update the privacy policy, and assume the site is compliant. On paper, everything looks correct. In practice, this assumption is where most compliance issues begin. In 2026, privacy enforcement and platform policies no longer focus on … Read more
For years, privacy compliance on the web followed a familiar pattern. A new regulation would arrive. Teams would update their cookie banner, tweak some wording, maybe install a CMP plugin — and move on. Compliance was treated as a milestone: something you “implemented,” checked off, and rarely revisited unless something broke. That mental model no … Read more