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Ok, but I guess  the way forward is to use a service such as cookiebot? It will be quite difficult maintaining this manually, and updating cookie descriptions in different languages

/Hans

I am implementing a third party cookie manager (cookieinformation) for a customer. Cookieinformation does some of the work for you, but you still have to block the sources (eg. youtube, vimeo and google analytics) yourself using cookieinformations javascript snippets.

For most cookie sources like youtube or google analytics it is easy to locate the script or iframe in the template code and block it, but is there any way to block dynamicweb cookies and make an external cookie manager work with dynamicweb cookies?

The two cookies are I would like to block are "Dynamicweb" and "Dynamicweb.SessionVisitor". What do these two do, can they be blocked and will the website work if blocked?

Hi Pernille.

First - it is not required to block those services - they all come in versions that does not track.

• You do not have to block youtube - you can use a no cookie embed instead by using youtube-nocookie.com, see privacy settings here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/171780?hl=en-GB. Using this, you can disregard cookie settings.
• You do not have to block Vimeo - you can disable tracking by using ?dnt=1, see https://vimeo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001494447-Using-Player-Parameters
• You do not have to block Google Analytics - you can disable the cookies by using disabling cookies using _storeGac, see https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/methods/gaJSApiDomainDirectory#_gat.GA_Tracker_._storeGac

Cookieinformation handles the cookie acceptance of the user under the cookie legislation. That is not to be confused with GDPR which is another legislation related to storing personal information. That is 2 different things to consider (Cookies and personal information) - if you disable cookies for GA and also configure GA to not track IP (see https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en), you do not need a consent or a cookie acceptance. Because the site will not set tracking cookies and the tracking will not record 'personal' information as defined in GDPR.

You loose the option to do retargeting and see how many returning visitors you have, but you can track everyone which is much better than those few who will accept cookies. Also you can combine this with GA consent mode: https://blog.google/products/marketingplatform/360/measure-conversions-while-respecting-user-consent-choices/ which is also supported by i.e. CookieBot: https://www.cookiebot.com/en/google-consent-mode/ and Cookieinformation: https://cookieinformation.com/resources/blog/what-is-google-consent-mode

I would recommend that you take the above into consideration to achieve a working website and most of the tracking even if users do not accept cookies and GDPR.

The Dynamicweb cookies are described here:

https://doc.dynamicweb.com/documentation-9/platform/platform-tools/cookie-manager#sideNavTitle1-2

If you enable cookiemanager in Dynamicweb settings, and add cookies to the "Tracking" category, these cookies will not be set until the user has accepted Dynamicweb tracking cookies. If you disable the Dynamicweb cookie banner (but keep the cookie manager active), the Dynamicweb tracking cookies will never be accepted by the user and therefore never set.

You can then accept the Dynamicweb tracking cookies from the external script by calling /Admin/Public/CookieOptInLevelConfig.aspx?OptInLevel=2 if the user accepts cookies in the cookie banner from CookieInformation. That will enable all cookies.

I am aware this is not a simple and straight forward setup.

BR Nicolai

Thank you for the explanation and clarification. I will consider the options with third party cookies.

The solution with the dw cookiemanager will do just fine for the website I am working on. Thank you.