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Okay, thank you very much for the clarification!

Hi Mathieu,

thank you for your detailed answer. I am pretty sure that you know much better about legal matters than I do.

I was referring to an article on a German IT news site. Golem.de (and other German news sites as well) have interpreted the legal verdict in such a way that any cookie that is not technically necessary requires the user’s consent. https://www.golem.de/news/eugh-urteil-jeder-cookie-erfordert-einwilligung-der-nutzer-1910-144187.html

The press release you have linked states that prechecked is not allowed. Also “That decision is unaffected by whether or not the information stored or accessed on the user’s equipment is personal data”. I think if prechecked is not allowed, then it is certainly even less allowed to have no choice. And we’re talking about Google here.

Anyway. Your plugin now works the way I need it to and it’s the best consent plugin I’ve tried so far. Thanks a lot!

In the wizard under “Statistics”, I have now deselected the following setting: “Google is not authorized to use this data for other Google services”. Even though this is actually the case and I have deactivated that Google is allowed to use the data for other services. But at least now the cookie is not set permanently from the beginning, even with IP anonymization.

Hello Aert, many thanks for your answer and the clarification.

In my opinion, even with all possible privacy options enabled (like anonymizeip), the cookie should only be set after the user’s consent.

Since around the beginning of October, the European Court of Justice has ruled that all cookies that are not required for the display/use of the website require the visitor’s consent. As Analytics is not a necessary service/cookie, it should only be activated when the user consents – even with anonymisation.

Unfortunately, I cannot find an option in your plugin that would allow me to do this. Or am I missing something?

Thanks a lot!