How To check Cookies notification in Blogger for European Union countries outside EU ?

European Union (EU) laws require websites to give EU visitors information about cookies used on website. In many cases, these laws also require websites to obtain consent from the visitor.

Blogger is a bloggin platform from Google and as such the platform is managed by Google. As a blogger, we are only using the system to post content. The management of the Blogger system is not in our control. Thankfully, Google have we have added a notice on Blogger to help meet these regulations. The notice lets visitors know about Google's use of certain Blogger and Google cookies on the Blogger blog, including Google Analytics and AdSense cookies.

In this post, we will check "How To check Cookies notification in Blogger for European Union countries outside EU?"

As stated above, Google have already implemented Cookie notification on the Blogger platform. As a Blogger user, you have to check if the Cookie notification really appears or not.



How To check Cookies notification in Blogger for European Union countries outside EU?

If you (Blogger) are already from EU countries such as in Italy, France, UK, Denmark, Sweden, Greece, Germany etc, there is no need to check as the Cookie notification should appear by default.

If you are outside of EU and your are using the default Blogger domain (Eg: yourblogname.blogspot.in), then you can check how the cookie notification is displayed to EU users by typing the country specific domain.

Eg: yourblogname.blogspot.fr  (for France)

Blogger might probably redirect you to your country specific domain. In which case, you will not bale able to see the Cookie notification. In that case, do the following:

yourblogname.blogspot.fr/ncr
where, ncr is "No Country Redirect" forcing Blogger to stay on the country domain you typed.

You should now be able to see the cookie notification when the Blogger domain is France. Similarly you can check for others.


How to enable cookie notification on a Blogger where country specific redirection is disabled:

If you have disabled country specific Blogger redirections using custom code( See here "How to disable country specific redirection of Blogger Blogspot sites? " ) , then the Blogger blog will always redirect to yourblogname.blogspot.com, in which case you will not be able to see the cookie notification as well. In this case, do the following:

• Login to Blogger dashboard
• Navigate to Template > EDIT HTML
• Find the code where the custom code to stop country specific redirection is applied
• Select the complete code and cut it (CTRL + X)
• Save the code in a Notepad for a while
• Save Theme

• Try accessing yourblogname.blogspot.fr/ncr, where, ncr is "No Country Redirect" forcing Blogger to stay on the country domain you typed.

You should be able to see the Blogger cookie notification.

• After that, put back the code from the Notepad to Blogger Template
• Save Theme

Note: The above step is just to check the Blogger cookie notification if you have disabled country specific notification. Otherwise, practically, since the country specific redirection is disable with a custom code, visitors from EU will also be redirected to .COM so they will also not see the Cookie notification. This might be an issue.

In which case, you as a Blogger may choose to implement a blanket cookie notification for all users using the code below:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/cookieconsent2/3.0.3/cookieconsent.min.css" />
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/cookieconsent2/3.0.3/cookieconsent.min.js"></script>
<script>
window.addEventListener("load", function(){
window.cookieconsent.initialise({
  "palette": {
    "popup": {
      "background": "#252e39"
    },
    "button": {
      "background": "#14a7d0"
    }
  },
  "theme": "edgeless",
  "position": "bottom-right"
})});
</script>

Copy the code above and add it to an HTML/Javascript Gadget/Widget.

This will display a popup cookie consent notification at the lower right corner.

For more information, refer: Blogger Help