Analytic and EU Cookie law

[AlexanderPD]

i think we all agree that EU cookie law is one of the dumbest thing humanity have ever do, but we need to deal with it.

I need a way to manually disable analytic until user accept the cookie law, something like an helper or a per-user setting to enable/disable analytics.
I will record the user "agree for cookie" in a cookie that will expire in 1 year (the maximum time span law-friendly i can use), so i want to bind this cookie to the enable/disable helper.

Is there an easy way to do this?

thank you! :)

[benstr]

Welcoming PRs for this issue.

[ilan-schemoul]

Well, that means that every people using this package with European users is an outlaw, right ?
We really need a way around this. So I guess I'll see if I could make a PR, but does everybody have really ignored the European law ? I mean as for me if my client wouldn't have warned me I'll most likely have forgotten about it but still ?

[cfnelson]

@NitroBAY Related issue here with some solutions -> #208
Happy to accept a PR to improve this experience.

[ilan-schemoul]

So if I understand correctly the issue we used to have to show the user that data was collected and now we need the user to consent by CLICKING a button or something very explicit alike (stating what's going on) before collecting any data plus activate in any way google analytic's IP anonymization.

[ilan-schemoul]

Well I'll just use the new npm package and I advice future readers to do the same. Good package.