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Do I need a cookie banner? Tracking scripts without consent

Legal · Fix this week · vibeliq reports this as “No cookie consent, but you're tracking visitors”

Why it matters

Your site loads trackers that drop cookies the moment someone arrives. In the EU and UK you need a yes first, and regulators do fine small sites for this.

How to check it yourself

Search your page source for googletagmanager, google-analytics, fbq( or hotjar. If any are present and your site shows no Accept and Reject choice, you're tracking without asking.

What the fix involves

Add a small banner with equal Accept and Reject buttons and load tracking scripts only after Accept. Or switch to cookieless analytics and skip the banner entirely.

Reference: gdpr.eu

How vibeliq checks it

We load your page the way a visitor's browser would, read what your server sends back, and look at a short list of well-known addresses on your site. If this turns up, your report explains it in plain English and gives you a prompt, written for Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable or whatever built your site, that fixes it in your actual codebase.

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