IMPORTANT - GDPR cookies issues

Hi,

We recently found out that Cookiebot.com (the gold standard in detecting cookies) finds around 6 cookies from Brizy which are supposed to be related to pop-ups but are active all the time even when no pop-ups are used. The problem is that Cookiebot classifies some of them as analytics and breaks the loading of other scripts (e.g. theme) if not accepted. Moreover, they are stored with no expiration date.

The cookies in question are:

• brz-firstVisit
• brz-showedPopupsInSessionTimeLine
• brz-sessions
• brz-lastVisit
• brz-pagesViews
• brz-pagesViewsInSessionTimeLine

As I explain in some of the threads below, they come from this script:

/wp-content/plugins/brizy/public/editor-build/163-wp/editor/js/preview.js

and are not discovered by the local storage of the browser regardless of whether pop-ups are used or not. This points to the culprit being a sloppy coding approach.

Here are other threads where the problem has been raised:

• Unclassified cookies 05.2020
• Brizy WordPress: What cookies do you set and why? 05.2020
  
• WP Brizy Cookie Information (Storage & Funktion) 12.2020

The general conclusion from these threads is "yes, it's a problem but we are in no hurry to fix it". I urge you to reconsider this. We retrospectively checked all our clients work and Cookiebot found these hidden cookies everywhere! Now we have to explain to old clients why they need to change their cookie policies.

We were considering buying Brizy Pro but I am afraid the hassle it creates with GDPR is too much to justify even using the free version when the competition is so fierce.

I hope you take this seriously and issue a fix as a matter of urgency.

Regards,

Viktor