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Notes on cookie consent, banner scanning and pre-consent evidence — what actually fires before a visitor clicks accept, and how to prove it.

• Cookie Consent Requirements (GDPR, PECR, and the 2026 UK Change)

  The cookie consent requirements that actually get enforced: prior consent, a real choice, and the UK penalty change that took effect in February 2026.

  Published 2026-09-06

• GDPR Cookie Banner Requirements — The Checklist Regulators Actually Use

  GDPR cookie banner requirements as they are enforced: prior blocking, symmetric reject, granular purposes, and a record of the choice you can produce.

  Published 2026-09-05

• What Is Cookie Consent?

  What cookie consent means, why it has to be collected before anything is stored, and how to tell whether a site is honouring it in practice.

  Published 2026-09-04

• Cookie Consent Banner Examples (and What's Wrong With Each)

  Cookie consent banner examples by pattern — the implied-consent bar, the accept-only wall, the asymmetric pair — and what each one gets wrong.

  Published 2026-09-03

• Cookie Table for GDPR — How to Build One From a Real Scan

  What a cookie table for GDPR should contain, and how to build one from a real browser scan instead of copying a template from another website.

  Published 2026-09-02

• Google Analytics Cookie Consent: What Fires Before You Click

  Google Analytics and cookie consent: which requests fire before a choice, what _ga actually is, and how Consent Mode v2 changes what you can measure.

  Published 2026-09-01

• Microsoft Clarity Cookie Consent — Does It Wait?

  Microsoft Clarity and cookie consent: session replay is high-risk processing, so check whether the Clarity script waits for a choice on your site.

  Published 2026-08-31

• Is Cookie Consent Required in the USA? (State by State, 2026)

  Is cookie consent required in the USA? Mostly opt-out rather than opt-in, plus a growing list of states that require honouring Global Privacy Control.

  Published 2026-08-30

• Cookiebot Pricing Explained — Why Two Sites Cost More Than Twice One

  Cookiebot pricing explained: tiers counted by subpages, subdomains billed separately, and why an agency's bill moves without the agency doing anything.

  Published 2026-08-29

• Osano Pricing: $199/mo for 3 Domains — the Per-Domain Math

  Osano pricing at a glance: a free tier for one domain, then $199 a month for three, and what that per-domain maths means for an agency with thirty sites.

  Published 2026-08-28