It’s important to verify your cookie blocking and ensure that your cookie banner effectively blocks cookies according to user consent.
To verify, follow the steps below:
- Open your your browser(Google Chrome) ,and right-click, then click on Inspect to open the developer console.
- Navigate to the Applications tab.
- Expand the Cookies dropdown under Storage.
- Click on each domain to see the cookies installed by them.
- Here, you can view all cookies on your website, along with their name, value, domain, path, expiration date, size, and additional details.
- Click Clear Site data, and check the box including third-party cookies button to clear all the cookies from your current session.
- Hard refresh the page by pressing Ctrl + Shift + R.
- If the cookie blocking is correctly implemented, only the Strictly Necessary cookies will be present until you accept the CookieYes banner.
- The remaining cookies will load automatically once their category in the banner is accepted.
To check website cookies in other browsers, refer this documentation.