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Real Cookie Banner is a cookie and consent management plugin designed to be an easy-to-use, powerful solution. All the features of our plugin are based on the legal texts in order to provide a solution that complies with the legal requirements of the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive. Compare us with alternative plugins!
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Real Cookie Banner | Borlabs Cookie | Complianz | Cookiebot | |
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Yearly price (starts from; per site; incl. 19 % VAT) | €59.00 | €46.41 | €49.00 | €144.00 |
Free version available | only for one domain |
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Translations of plugin into # languages (> 90% completeness; language variants not counted) | 12 all texts in cookie banner are customizable |
6 all texts in cookie banner are customizable |
8 all texts in cookie banner are customizable |
48 all texts in cookie banner are customizable |
Audited by lawyer | Legally advised by meibers.rechtsanwälte |
Unknown or not advertised | Unknown or not advertised | Unknown or not advertised |
Cookie & Consent Management | ||||
Service (cookie) templates | 150+ templates |
28+ templates |
35+ templates; best results if the cloud service is activated |
visible after site scan |
Individual service groups | custom coding necessary |
predefined groups |
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Consent possible per service directly in cookie banner | only in legal documents outside cookie banner |
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Technical specifications of HTTP cookies and cookie-like information | one complete technical cookie definition per service |
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Execution of opt-in and opt-out HTML/JavaScript code | not assignable to the consent of a service |
you have to code this feature by yourself |
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Automatic deletion of 1st-party cookies in case of opt-out | for predefined cookies |
client-side |
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Legal texts linkable in footer of cookie banner | any link depending on the country law |
only privacy policy and legal notice (imprint) |
only privacy policy, cookie policy and legal notice (imprint) |
only via custom link in e.g. description text |
Hiding of cookie banner on legally relevant pages (e.g. privacy policy or legal notice/imprint) | configurable for all legal links |
only privacy policy and legal notice (imprint) |
only privacy policy and legal notice (imprint) |
only via JavaScript SDK |
Accepting all services for bots | ||||
Use of “Do Not Track” header | ||||
Age notice to comply with GDPR youth protection regulations | ||||
Obtaining consent for data processing in unsafe countries | configurable per country |
only USA; no disclosure for which services |
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Geo-restriction to show cookie banner only if necessary | predefined country list, not configurable |
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Native Swiss DSG compatibility | ||||
Scanner | ||||
Automatic check of all subpages for used services | each page indexed in sitemap |
each page indexed in sitemap |
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Detection of external services (with and without template) | based on HTML markup |
based on first-party cookies in browser of administrator |
technical cookies not always automatically associated with a service |
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Detection of known WordPress plugins | automatically blocks known plugins; services for consent must be manually created |
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Content Blocker | ||||
Content Blocker templates for popular services/plugins | 120+ templates |
7+ templates |
16+ templates |
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Content blockers replace embeds with similar content (e.g. YouTube video replaced with video player) | ||||
Block already integrated link, inline style, (inline) script and iframe HTML tags until the consent of the visitor | works for 16 predefined services |
client-side for known or manually marked services |
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URL blocking to block entire elements using a URL | always unblocks when opt-in for marketing services |
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Custom element blocking for blocking entire elements without modifying HTML markup | ||||
Splitting of inline styles to block individual CSS selectors | ||||
Automatic video playback after consent via content blocker | for YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and Loom videos |
for YouTube and Vimeo videos |
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Design customization | ||||
Cookie banner design presets | 20+ design presets |
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Customizable design of cookie banner | 200+ design settings |
110+ design settings |
60+ design settings |
8 design options |
Live preview of design changes | if TCF support disabled |
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Design options for optimized display on mobile devices | ||||
Accessibility | ||||
Cookie banner compliant with WCAG 2.1 Level AA or later | ||||
Scoring of design settings for accessibility requirements (to protect against inappropriate contrasts, font sizes, etc.) | Accessibility Score similar to PageSpeed Insights Score |
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Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF) | ||||
TCF v2 or newer support | ||||
Google certified CMP (AdSense, Ad Manager, or AdMob) | no version designated as stable available for use |
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Vendors can be selected from GVL | all vendors that use least one selected purpose or feature |
programmatic implementation through custom script tag |
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Publisher restrictions can be applied to vendors | programmatic implementation through custom script tag |
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Stacks for user-friendly visualization | ||||
Individual selection for visitors integrated in cookie banner | visitor must switch to cookie policy |
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Proactive notice of design violations (e.g. contrast too low) | ||||
Content blocker for content/scripts from vendors without consent | ||||
Consents and documentation | ||||
Documentation of consents | without design settings and list of all cookies |
without design settings |
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Creation of consents afterwards traceable through interactive visualization | including player (see how users clicked, scrolled, …) |
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Proactive obtain new consents after changing the content or behavior of the cookie banner | manually to trigger |
on adding new service, but not on changing e.g. texts |
when adding new services, but not when changing texts |
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Statistics about visitor consents | three statistics with dynamic time range |
statistic with fixed date choice |
one opt-in chart |
one opt-in chart |
Links for viewing the history of consent, changing and revoking consent | as menu items or shortcodes |
as shortcodes or widget (floating) |
as shortcodes |
as HTML links or widget (floating) |
Technical solution | ||||
Native solution in WordPress | Cloud service loaded as external script |
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Anti-Ad-Blocker system to get consents from users with aggressive Ad-Blocker | ||||
Import and export settings | ||||
Export of collected consents | ||||
Support for Google Tag Manager (GTM) and Matomo Tag Manager (MTM) that loads tag manager only after consent | according to the documentation, GTM should also be loaded without consent |
GTM loads before user consent |
GTM loads before user consent |
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Support for multilingual websites with WPML and Polylang | with cookie/service synchronization between languages |
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Support for multilingual websites with TranslatePress (advanced integration) | ||||
Support for multilingual websites with Weglot (advanced integration) | with machine translations |
with machine translations |
with machine translations |
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Support for WordPress Multisites | ||||
Consent Forwarding to avoid multiple consents of a visitor on multiple sites of an organization | one-way and two-way sync |
consents shared via cookie, but without e.g. documentation of consent |
consents shared via cookie, but without e.g. documentation of consent |
within same domain group |
Support for automatic emptying of all known page caches after a change to the cookie banner | for 26 page-cache plugins |
for 6 page-cache plugins |
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Compatible WordPress version | 5.9 or newer | 4.7 or newer | 4.9 or newer | 4.4 or newer |
The comparison was made in November 2023 on the basis of the following versions of the WordPress Plugins: Real Cookie Banner v4.0.0, Borlabs Cookie v2.2.66, Complianz v6.5.6, Cookiebot v4.3.1
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