
Over the past few years, Consent Management Platforms (CMPs) have become a fixed cost for many organizations. Sometimes these costs can run up to hundreds of euros per month. But what are you actually paying for?

Most CMPs base their pricing model on the number of pages crawled monthly. In practice, this is not a real cost for a CMP provider. Moreover, the usefulness of such a dynamically generated overview of cookies is often overestimated. A CMP suggests that such an automatic list saves you a lot of work, but in reality, these crawls are rarely complete. Important pages – for example, steps in a checkout or pages behind a login – are often not reached. And cookies that are found are regularly not recognized.

The result: in addition to the monthly costs, you still need to hire an expert to properly configure the CMP for you.

In addition, many, often international, CMP settings do not align well with the Dutch situation. In the Netherlands, consent is not required for limited analytical cookies with no or minimal privacy impact. This regularly causes confusion when a visitor turns off the analytics toggle, but analytical measurements continue anyway.

This can be better. That's why I've developed an open-source cookie banner that you can use for free.

- ✓ Better aligned with Dutch GDPR regulations
- ✓ Directly implementable via Google Tag Manager
- ✓ No monthly costs
- ✓ Open-source and fully customizable

You can find the original code on [GitHub](https://github.com/shesselmans/cookiebar). You can use the code directly and customize it to your needs.

Prefer to configure your banner without touching code? Use our free [cookie banner tool](https://databandits.nl/en/open-source-cookie-banner) to generate a GTM configuration in minutes.

Need help with setup or implementation? Then [contact me](https://databandits.nl/en/contact/).



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