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Cookie consent,
written down properly
Long reads on the rules, the enforcement and the engineering of consent. Every claim carries a date and a source, and every piece ends with something you can check on your own site today.
How to add a cookie banner to a Lovable app that actually blocks trackers
Lovable ships your app without a cookie banner, and asking it for one gets you a box that blocks nothing. Here is the ten-minute route to a banner that holds every tracker until people agree, with the checks that prove it.
ReadReject all, on the first layer: what the 2025 CNIL decisions changed for every cookie banner
Two decisions in September 2025 turned an EDPB guideline into a price tag. Here is what the regulator counted, and what a compliant first layer looks like in 2026.
ReadGoogle Consent Mode v2 for people who ship: the seven signals, basic against advanced, and the June 2026 change
Consent Mode is not a cookie blocker. It is a message your banner sends to Google’s tags. Get the message wrong and you either break the law or lose your Ads measurement. Here is the whole thing in one page.
ReadProof of consent under Article 7(1): what a consent record has to contain, and what ours does
A regulator or an enterprise customer asks how you got consent. “We have a banner” is not an answer. A file is. This is what has to be in it.
ReadDo cookie banners hurt Core Web Vitals? Where the cost really comes from
Yes, a banner can wreck your scores. No, it does not have to. The damage comes from three specific behaviours, and each has a fix.
ReadUK cookie rules after 5 February 2026: the statistics exemption, explained
The UK loosened one corner of its cookie rules and tightened the penalty for everything else. Here is what the Data (Use and Access) Act changed, and what it did not.
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Regulation changes; the banner follows
The regulation watch on the home page tracks what changed and what is proposed. The newsletter in the footer sends the same, a few times a month.