Oli Gentle Consent

No? OK, cool.

The consent the law asks for, asked gently: one small question, and “no” is a normal answer. The visitor who says no keeps a page that works, with plain links, and is never asked again.

A plugin for Grav. Coming soon on GitHub (AGPL-3.0).

What the visitor sees

Until they agree, a video, a map or a player is a card with a plain link, and nothing is sent to the provider. Once they agree, the cards become the real content, at once.

What it does

One choice for the whole site, kept in the visitor’s browser only.
It finds the services by itself. Every page the site sends adds its services (YouTube, Vimeo, Spotify, Google Maps…) to the list of the site, and a scan visits the whole sitemap. The banner and the privacy policy show the same list: nobody keeps it by hand.
A new service asks again, for that one only. Consent given for YouTube never sends data to another provider.
No means no, and stays no: the visitor is not asked again.
A switch for the privacy policy, to change one’s mind at any time.
A small JavaScript API, so other plugins can wait for the visitor’s choice too.

In a page

<div class="embed-slot" data-embed-src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ID">
  <a class="embed-card" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID">Watch on YouTube</a>
</div>

In the privacy policy: [consent-sources /] (the list of the services) and [consent-switch /] (the visitor’s choice).

Consent.granted('embeds')            // true once the visitor agreed
Consent.whenGranted('embeds', fn)    // fn now if agreed, else as soon as they agree
document.addEventListener('consent:change', (e) => e.detail)

Practising what it preaches

This page sets no cookie, runs no script and loads nothing from another server. You can see the plugin at work on van-helden.net.