Confusion after v2 update

  • I must say I’m a little confused after the v2 update and need some clarification. I hope I will explain everything well.

    I have a website with google analytics and non-personalized Adsense ads.
    A few weeks ago I have setup GDPR plugin like this:

    Cookie Categories:

    Necessary – WordPress cookies and reCaptcha cookies as third domain (google.com) cookies with a link to opt-out
    GDPR – GDPR plugin cookies marked as required
    Analytics – optional, placed under my own domain and blocked by default
    Ads – optional, and as far as I see, all of Adsense cookies are served as a third party and I have non-personalized ads so I just had a proper link to opt-out here. Generally speaking, all of the Adsense cookies were listed as a third party from double-click domain with a link to opt-out.

    Consents:
    Privacy Policy – required
    Analytics – optional
    Ads – optional

    And now after update to v2, all third-party cookies were missing.
    All consents except Privacy Policy are turned-on by default and when it comes to cookie category for Ads it is completely missing as no cookies were listed under my own domain – all of them were the third party.

    Now it seems that I cannot have a category with only third-party cookies because then such category doesn’t show up – how am I supposed to properly inform users about non-personalised ads with a link to adjust their settings like it was before? I may be wrong but as far as I see all cookies under this category (Ads) are the third party cookies.

    Now, I played for a moment with the latest version of this plugin locally and I think I will partially solve it like this.

    I will leave only one consent – the requirement to agree to the privacy policy because I have sections about google analytics and Adsense with proper links there – so I hope it would be ok.

    And when it comes to cookie categories I would like to have them like they were before so:

    Necessary: WordPress cookies
    — third-party: google.com (reCaptcha cookies)
    GDPR: GDPR cookies as required
    Analytics: switched-off by default
    Ads: nothing under my own domain
    –third-party: DoubleClick and maybe some others

    So the problem is with the last cookie category, how am I supposed to do it if I have to put some cookies under my own domain for the category to be displayed at all?

    Thank you for any guidance, maybe I understand this wrong and this is not the way I should configure this plugin for my requirements I described above? I think this is pretty common setup: Analytics + Adsense, so maybe there are some examples?

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  • Plugin Author Fernando Claussen

    (@fclaussen)

    Hi @paweltar

    Sorry about the confusion.
    During the v2 update, a few issues came up. A few people reported their third party cookies missing and this has since been fixed.

    The way I intended third-party cookies to work is to not have a category just for them.

    I intended users to create categories such as Necessary, Analytics, Advertising, Preferences, Other.

    If, for example, I have Youtube/Vimeo videos on my site I would add those as third-party in one of these categories.

    Now that I’m done with V2 and we are past May 25th, I will be working more on the documentation and adding examples.

    In your case, you don’t really need a GDPR category. You could put those inside the Necessary category.

    Thread Starter paweltar

    (@paweltar)

    Thanks for your response @fclaussen,

    so if all advertising cookies are third-party then I should merge this category with some other one that places cookies under my own domain? For example – google analytics places cookies under my own domain and all Adsense cookies are placed from third-party domains as far as I can see – then the only way is to have a combined category like:

    Analytics and Ads
    — under my domain, blocked by default: Google Analytics
    — under third-party domains (like doubleclick.net): ads cookies with a link to opt-out

    I’m really looking forward to seeing those examples or some gallery of popular implementations – would be very useful.

    Also, maybe I should create separate support topic for this, but can you confirm that if you block Google Analytics cookies by default with a JavaScript function then it is indeed blocked on the first page load, but if you move to some other page, without clicking “I Agree” on a bar – Google Analytics cookies will be placed anyway without consent?

    Plugin Author Fernando Claussen

    (@fclaussen)

    If you block Analytics it will be blocked until someone hits “I Agree”. Navigating to another page will not set the cookies.

    I thought that in the latest version of the plugin, cookies used were not required anymore. Turns out they are not but the privacy window does not display the category without it. I’m pushing a patch to fix that later.

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