How does CookieBot determine whether visitor is inside/outside of EU?
AnsweredHow does CookieBot's back-end determine whether a particular visitor to a particular web page is visiting from inside of, or outside of, the European Union? Is this done with IP addresses, running the IPs through a geolocation service (such as MaxMind)?
If a webmaster were wanting to check for EU/non-EU before the (async) CookieBot script has run and set a cookie, is there any particular method, service, script, whatever that CookieBot would recommend?
Thank you!
Eliz.
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Hi Elizabeth,
Cookiebot performs a geo-location lookup in real-time for each user, based on the user's anonymized IP. If you want to perform a similar lookup before loading Cookiebot, you would need to use a separate third party service for that (we do not recommend any particular service).
Regards,
Elina0 -
Thank you!
Eliz.
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FYI, in case anybody else is needing geo-IP services: I've implemented the free MaxMind product:
https://www.maxmind.com/en/open-source-data-and-api-for-ip-geolocation
...with the PHP API, plus the optional C add-on (for greatly increased speed):
https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/downloadable/
This is working very nicely for me.
Eliz.
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