Regulators don't audit consent banner visibility. They audit your website's tracking behavior. PrivacyKit extends consent collection with real enforcement and continuous validation, so you can verify that your website respects visitor consent—even as your website changes.
Traditional CMP
Collect consent
Collect consent
Enforce consent
Enforce consent
Continuous validation
Continuous validation
Traditional consent platforms often require dashboards, registration flows, and complex setup. PrivacyKit is designed to work immediately.
| Feature | PrivacyKit | Cookiebot | Cookie Information | OneTrust |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Consent Mode v2 support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Control when third-party code executes | Yes | Limited | Limited | Limited |
| Continuous compliance monitoring & validation | Yes | No | No | No |
| Works with any frontend | Yes | Limited | Limited | Limited |
| Automatic subdomain consent sharing | Yes | Limited | Limited | Limited |
| Unlimited pages and subpages | Yes | Limited | Limited | Limited |
| Start instantly without registration | Yes | No | No | No |
| Local development without dashboard setup | Yes | No | No | No |
| Lightweight web component architecture | Yes | No | No | No |
| Fully themeable | Yes | Limited | Limited | Yes |
| Public demos and GitHub examples | Yes | Limited | Limited | No |
No registration, no commitment—explore PrivacyKit your way.
Explore the core capabilities that make PrivacyKit different—from consent collection and real enforcement to continuous validation and automatic platform updates.
Websites change continuously. Consent compliance needs to keep up. PrivacyKit Consent Validator provides ongoing visibility into your website’s tracking behavior—and has been used to uncover the real-world consent compliance findings in our public database.
| Scanners | PrivacyKit Consent Validator | |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Manual or periodic | Activated on demand |
| Visibility | External report | Directly on the website |
| Analysis | Snapshot based | Runtime based |
| Validation | Detects possible issues | Validates consent guard coverage |
| Website changes | May miss regressions | Surfaces unmanaged changes |
| Outcome | Point-in-time | Continuous validation |
Buying accounting software doesn't automatically make your tax reporting correct. Showing a consent banner doesn't automatically mean your website respects visitor consent. You need to enforce it.
See findings from other organizations
“Collecting consent is relatively well understood, but validating that consent is being respected over time is a much less mature area.”
“Too many companies are waiting for an accident to happen—often without even realizing it.”
“As privacy expectations increase, organizations have to do more than just check a box.”
“Many organizations assume a cookie banner means they're compliant. It doesn't.”
Keep your banner, replace it, or start from scratch. Choose the path that fits your website.
We regularly check your website and tell you when something loads without consent. No installation.
Validation plan: no installation and no changes to your website.
Keep your current banner. Check your website with Consent Validator. Add PrivacyKit guards to enforce the consent your banner collects.
Collect consent with the PrivacyKit dialog. Enforce it with guards. Check your website with Consent Validator. Set it up yourself, or let us do it.
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