Google released the CookieChoices website, and some useful tools which some blog owners used, to add a cookie notice banner, to their blogs.
In July 2015, Blogger added a cookie notice banner, to save blog owners the trouble of using the CookieChoices website tools.
The Blogger version of CookieChoices is - or could be - transparent to most Blogger blog owners.
European Union laws require you to give European Union visitors information about cookies used on your blog. In many cases, these laws also require you to obtain consent.
As a courtesy, we have added a notice on your blog to explain Google's use of certain Blogger and Google cookies, including use of Google Analytics and AdSense cookies.
You are responsible for confirming this notice actually works for your blog, and that it displays. If you employ other cookies, for example by adding third party features, this notice may not work for you. Learn more about this notice and your responsibilities.
Not all blog owners really understand the cookie advice notice.
This notice, and the Blogger cookie advice banner, goes a long way towards making the CookieChoices cookie advice banner transparently operational, on Blogger blogs.
Even so, the Blogger advice still confuses some blog owners.
You are responsible for confirming this notice actually works for your blog, and that it displays.
Not all blog owners are sure what that phrase means, nor how to comply with its advice.
Verifying the cookie notice banner - for standard Blogger blogs - is not difficult. If your blog can be successfully verified, your blog may be compliant.
Blogger Engineering suggests use of GeoPeeker, which is a multi-proxy service which shows you any blog or website, using a set of 6 proxy sites. Generally 1 of the 6 proxies, provided in the free GeoPeeker service, will be located in a EU country.
- Singapore
- São Paulo, Brazil
- Virginia, United States
- California, United States
- Dublin, Ireland
- Sydney, Australia
- Frankfurt, Germany
- Noida, India
- Karlskrona, Sweden
- London, United Kingdom
- Tokyo, Japan
- Halifax, Canada
Of the above list, you could use either Dublin (Ireland), Frankfurt (Germany), Karlskrona (Sweden), or London (UK) to view your blog and verify cookie compliance, depending upon which locations GeoPeeker provides. The free version of GeoPeeker gives you a view of your blog, using a set of 6 of the above 12, automatically.
This blog, seen in thumbnail view, with 6 of the GeoPeeker proxies.You can click on each thumbnail, to see the blog in full size.
This blog, seen by the GeoPeeker Dublin, Ireland proxy.See the cookie notice, at the top?
Some blogs, that use a "Responsive" or third party template, may display the cookie notice at the bottom. For those blogs, you'll have to click on the thumbnail for "Ireland" - then scroll to the very bottom of the GeoPeeker full size display, to look for the notice.
Just use either technique, as applicable to your blog. View your blog, and see that it displays the cookie notice.
If your blog displays the notice, it may be compliant - so get back to work. If it does not display the notice, more work will be needed. Right now, we'll address the latter, in Blogger Help Forum: Get Help with an Issue.
Once you know that the basic banner is operational, spend time researching additional possibilities.