How does CookieBot determine whether visitor is inside/outside of EU?

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Elizabeth Stapel

• July 15, 2018 20:46

How 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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  Elina - vConnect - Community Supporter

  • July 16, 2018 08:57

  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,
  Elina

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  Elizabeth Stapel

  • July 25, 2018 13:03

  Thank you!

  Eliz.

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  Elizabeth Stapel

  • August 01, 2018 16:37

  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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