EU Cookie Law

look at C4owners.org The cookie info is a pop up, but is also available on the home page as a menu but once set it's not intrusive

I have only had one member query it in over 6 months
If you use Adsense or any other 'tracked' ads your going to have to do something sooner or later.

Even casual visitors need to be told in my opinion, not just members on registration

The one you have Dave is much more complex than the script I made the menu from. It looks like a version of Father's Barry plugin, but less annoying. To bad we can't have a link to it.

This law is so not worth the time invested to apply these things, but on the other hand for serious sites that already have a Term of Use and Privacy Policy, not adding this will only make us (site owners/webmasters/admins) look like we are trying to hide something, so it's advisable to comply if your majority of traffic comes from EU.

I agree, its a bad law badly implemented. But with fines of up to £1/2m and a criminal record for the unlucky owner of the website its a bit OTT in my opinion.

It would have been better to have sought the cooperation of browser suppliers who could have agreed upon a cookie plugin to tell visitors what they are and how they are useful and what they do and don't need etc.

"A big fine and a record, and the user probably clicked the link and went to ebay and bought the pink fluffy elephant for their grandchild any way....."

I have just found the following application that appears to be perfect for the job at Wolf Software [-link-] It's free to use, but requires £25 to remove their minimal branding which I think is a very fair price to pay should you decide to do so. I have no idea yet how easily it can be stitched into e107. I have one or two install questions that I've asked of their support team. I'll keep this forum updated on progress. I would be interested in hearing from anyone who has successfully installed this on e107.

Would be nice to see something that covers this put in to the core of 2.0

Actually, on a quick scan, the cookies set by e107 on a core installation are all functional cookies and therefore they do not require explicit permissions. Note that I still have to look into this thoroughly (and consult some other people) before I can say this definitively.

Worth looking at what some other sites have done:
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These people all think a simple message, even after setting a few basic cookies, is sufficient

For some reason I only see the message on the 2nd one steved (probably because I have add blocking enabled in Chrome)

It is a neat solution to the issue though

Looks like the BBC auto-store a cookie indicating consent, if you don't decline - I deleted it, then the message reappeared.


And another view on handling cookies:
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Well if your using Adsense then you have to comply looking at the last link steved. [-link-]

FB' is working on the jquery version, you can see it in action here (I modified the layout a bit). Jquery and Jquery UI is used opposed to Prototype. I am not sure how he will release it premium or free, all I know is that he was working on it and that;s why it's not public yet.

Thanks for the info. I'll have to think about how far I take this, seeing as my website will not have any third-party plugins...

Like the bob-guild site btw, very nicely done.

The version I'm running is 'Prototype' based but with v2.0 having j query, it makes more sense to use that

Maestr0 - if you have adsense or any other 3rd party adverts on site, your gong to need to have some form of message.

Just basic cookies on my website, no adsense or third party cookies whatsoever.

There are plenty of examples of how to interpret the rules - a simple approach:
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Or it could just be all too difficult!
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More confusion,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

I'm sure it'll all settle down after a while. I've seen it before in other areas - initially the alarmists persuade people to cover their backsides (usually by spending lots of money with the alarmists). Gradually commonsense prevails, and people look more at what the law is trying to achieve, and guidance becomes more realistic.

For many (most?) e107 users, the reality is that we are small enough fry to not attract attention too much. The most likely target for any enforcement action (in the UK, at least) is a well-known company. Anyone else is likely to get a warning at most.

for the cookie seekers just adding one in relationship to nlstarts reply on page 1> e107 language cookie is also added if using multi language on site (placed after language switch).

but anyway : if you are running a script or whatever : : thats normally a cookie too (mentioned earlier). So if you are trying to list, don't forget to add that one too .


edited and added : not tested, but running polls would involve a cookie too.. ?
text sizing? theres one too

Heres a neat solution:

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I added their code to a custom menu and it works like a charm.
I have also entered their generated html into the site footer via Admin, Preferences, Footer, and again this works perfectly. 100% recommended e107 solution. It seems that most other CMS's e.g. Drupal, Joomla etc had had plugins written by their community. Would be good to see an e107 plugin there also.