use_cookie, method and cookie banners

[cookierocks-com]

Hi,

We make Cookie Rocks, a cookie consent plugin for WordPress. A 1.5 kB tracker is a pleasure to read, and we'd like to treat Koko Analytics as well as it treats sites.

Cookie Rocks Pro 2.11.0 holds Koko's script until consent, so its cookie isn't set before the visitor's choice. Some site owners may want a count with no cookie where their law allows it.

Could a banner do better? The script sends use_cookie ? 'c' : method[0], and the default method is cookie, so setting use_cookie to false changes nothing on a default site. Is that intended? And is setting method to none before consent a supported way to do this?

We'd like to follow whatever you recommend.

Ready when you are,
Ben, Cookie Rocks

[dannyvankooten]

Hi @cookierocks-com,

The use_cookie is a legacy flag and the proper way is to use the new method property indeed. It takes the following values:

fingerprint, cookie and none (or anything else, really).

Some more info here: Cookie vs Cookieless tracking in Koko Analytics

That said, you bring up a good point that a third-party plugin setting use_cookie to false should probably result in any of the two non-cookie methods and certainly not the default. We'll fix that!

And is setting method to none before consent a supported way to do this?

Yes, that is the best way to do this!

We have some KB articles on Complianz in our knowledge base. If you do happen to provide support for Koko Analytics out of the box, do let me know so that I can mention Cookie Rocks there as well.

All the best,
Danny