Your Cookie Banner Is Probably Breaking GDPR —...

You installed a cookie banner plugin, clicked through the setup, and moved on. That was six months ago. You just received an email from a user asking why your site set cookies before they clicked "Accept." You do not know the answer. That is the moment most founders discover that having a cookie banner and having a compliant cookie banner are two different things. The GDPR does not require the presence of a banner. It requires the quality of a specific consent mechanism — one that meets precise