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92% of Websites Load Trackers Before Consent

92% of Websites Load Trackers Before Consent

92% of websites set at least one tracking cookie before showing any consent notice, according to a 2019 audit of 2,000 sites later corroborated by a 2024 study of 97,000 domains. See how many sites still track visitors after a reject click.

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88.2% of Consent Banners Break GDPR Rules [2026]

88.2% of Consent Banners Break GDPR Rules [2026]

88.2% of consent banners fail to meet minimum GDPR legal requirements, according to a CHI 2020 audit of the UK's top 10,000 websites by Nouwens et al. See the exact violations researchers found, a newer 97,000-site follow-up study, and what regulators are fining in 2026.

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62.1% of EU Websites Show a Cookie Banner [2026 Data]

62.1% of EU Websites Show a Cookie Banner [2026 Data]

62.1% of the EU's top 500 websites per country displayed a cookie consent banner shortly after GDPR took effect in May 2018, up from 46.1% five months earlier, according to Ruhr-Universitat Bochum's NDSS 2019 study of 6,759 sites. See the country breakdown, banner types, and how many still skip a banner entirely.

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