Jekyll: Cookie Consent

The EU decided, that every website should give a clear warning if it is using cookies in it’s EU ePrivacy Directive. Due to some local laws, it’s not clear if you need a Cookie Warning in Germany, but just to be sure I prefer to add a simple version.

Include Cookie Consent

You can find many a quite nice Cookie Constent solutions, I picked Insites' Cookie Consent which is licensed under MIT license.

On their website you can even configure the solution through a simple wizard: Download Cookie Consent

If you are using the minima theme, there is currently no option to simply include additional Javascript. Therefor you have to create _includes/head.html and paste the content of the original head.html.

Now you can add {{ "{% include cookieconsent.html "}} %} before the closing head tag. This will include the content of _includes/cookieconsent.html which you have to create with the content provided by the wizard.

For example:

<link
  rel="stylesheet"
  type="text/css"
  href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/cookieconsent2/3.0.2/cookieconsent.min.css"
/>
<script
  async
  defer
  src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/cookieconsent2/3.0.2/cookieconsent.min.js"
></script>
<script>
  window.addEventListener("load", function() {
    window.cookieconsent.initialise({
      palette: {
        popup: {
          background: "#424242"
        },
        button: {
          background: "#2a7ae2"
        }
      },
      content: {
        href: "https://www.dev-eth0.de/privacy-policy"
      }
    });
  });
</script>