Your WordPress site is setting cookies you never added

Hi John Doe,

Quick question: do you know how many cookies your WordPress site sets when someone visits?

Most site owners don't. And it's not because they're careless… they never added those cookies themselves.

Google Analytics added some. Your YouTube embeds added more. So did your Facebook Pixel, your form's reCAPTCHA, and maybe your ad tags.

For years, that didn't matter much. Now it does, for two reasons.

First, privacy laws like GDPR say many of those cookies need the visitor's permission before they load.

Second, if you run Google Ads or GA4, Google now expects a consent signal from your European visitors. Without it, you lose ad measurement and remarketing for those visitors… and you keep paying for clicks you can't fully track.

Now what if your site could find every one of those cookies and handle consent for you?

That's exactly what WPConsent does.

It scans your site, shows you every cookie and service it finds, and blocks those scripts until the visitor says yes. Once they agree, everything starts working again.

Here's how it helps:

✅ See every cookie your site sets, in one scan

✅ Block tracking scripts and YouTube embeds until visitors agree

✅ Send Google the consent signals it needs (Google Consent Mode v2)

✅ Show the banner only where the law requires it, like the EU or California

✅ Keep consent records on your own site, not a third-party server

✅ No page-view limits, no matter how much traffic you get

Over 200,000 websites already use WPConsent. The best part? The free version is on WordPress.org, so you can scan your site today and see what's been running without you knowing.

👉Scan Your Site Free with WPConsent👈

Your visitors deserve to know what your site is doing… and so do you.

Talk soon,

Syed Balkhi

Founder of WPBeginner

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