Consent Management (CMP)

The Data Protection Officer v1.0

External DPO for a dozen mid-sized companies, two of which received a letter from a state supervisory authority about their cookie banner last year. Wants reject on the first layer, nothing loaded before the click, a consent log that shows which banner version each visitor saw, a cookie list that matches the site, and a DPA and subprocessor list that keep visitor data in the EU.

The Agency Developer v1.0

Lead developer at a web agency that maintains forty client sites on WordPress, TYPO3 and Shopify. Wants one account for every client, blocking that works without rewriting each theme, content blockers for YouTube and Maps, a Tag Manager template, a scanner that flags the tracker a client added on Friday, and a JavaScript API documented well enough that forms and plugins can ask for consent.

The Publisher Marketing Lead v1.0

Runs marketing for an ad-funded news site and an online shop in the same group, where every point of consent rate shows up in ad revenue and in Google Ads conversions. Wants a registered IAB TCF CMP, Google Consent Mode v2 in advanced mode, banner tests within what the law allows, consent shared between the site and the app, and a dashboard that shows where visitors drop off.

The In-House Lawyer v1.0

In-house counsel at a retailer with shops in Germany, France and Austria, who has read the court decisions on missing reject buttons and the regulators' banner guidance. Wants § 25 TDDDG and the GDPR mapped to concrete settings, equal-weight choices as the default, consent that can be withdrawn as easily as it was given, and records that would hold up if a competitor or a consumer group sued.

The WordPress Webmaster v1.0

Looks after the WordPress site of a mid-sized engineering company on top of the actual job, with Google Analytics, a YouTube channel, a Maps embed and a contact form with reCAPTCHA. Wants a plugin that finds these by itself, blocks them until the visitor agrees, survives the next plugin update and caching, and costs a known amount per site per year without a call to sales.

The Skeptic v1.0

Has opened the browser's network tab on sites with a "certified" banner and watched the ad pixels fire before anything was clicked. Reads "consent rate optimisation" as a hint that reject will be grey and small, "auto-blocking" as a claim until the test steps are published, and "EU hosting" next to a US script CDN — and asks what leaving would cost: the consent logs, and every visitor asked again.