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TakesNo and the free cookie checkers
Several consent vendors offer a free cookie checker. Cookiebot and Usercentrics send their checker results by email only; we did not submit.
| Tool | Free to view results | Interacts with the banner | Reports the cookie set before a choice | Reports the request after Reject | What you get back |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cookiebot | Results are emailed; an email address is needed [S-357] | could not determine | could not determine | could not determine | could not determine |
| CookieYes | Free, no email needed [S-356] | Could not determine: our log shows one page fetch by CookieYesbot and no request to the address our page calls after Reject; the log cannot show clicks [S-358] | Listed lb_seen, the cookie set before any choice [S-356] | Not in the output: the report lists cookies only, no requests [S-356] | Cookie list in six categories (1 cookie, "Other"), then a free-trial prompt [S-356] |
| OneTrust | We did not find a free checker at the URLs we tried [S-357] | could not determine | could not determine | could not determine | could not determine |
| Usercentrics | Results are emailed; an email address is needed [S-357] | could not determine | could not determine | could not determine | could not determine |
| TakesNo | could not determine | could not determine | could not determine | could not determine | could not determine |
Cookiebot
- Free to view results
- Results are emailed; an email address is needed [S-357]
- Interacts with the banner
- could not determine
- Reports the cookie set before a choice
- could not determine
- Reports the request after Reject
- could not determine
- What you get back
- could not determine
CookieYes
- Free to view results
- Free, no email needed [S-356]
- Interacts with the banner
- Could not determine: our log shows one page fetch by CookieYesbot and no request to the address our page calls after Reject; the log cannot show clicks [S-358]
- Reports the cookie set before a choice
- Listed
lb_seen, the cookie set before any choice [S-356] - Reports the request after Reject
- Not in the output: the report lists cookies only, no requests [S-356]
- What you get back
- Cookie list in six categories (1 cookie, "Other"), then a free-trial prompt [S-356]
OneTrust
- Free to view results
- We did not find a free checker at the URLs we tried [S-357]
- Interacts with the banner
- could not determine
- Reports the cookie set before a choice
- could not determine
- Reports the request after Reject
- could not determine
- What you get back
- could not determine
Usercentrics
- Free to view results
- Results are emailed; an email address is needed [S-357]
- Interacts with the banner
- could not determine
- Reports the cookie set before a choice
- could not determine
- Reports the request after Reject
- could not determine
- What you get back
- could not determine
TakesNo
- Free to view results
- could not determine
- Interacts with the banner
- could not determine
- Reports the cookie set before a choice
- could not determine
- Reports the request after Reject
- could not determine
- What you get back
- could not determine
What TakesNo does differently
TakesNo opens the site in a real browser, chooses Accept, Reject and no choice in turn, and records the cookies and requests seen after each. It reports evidence, not a verdict. How we test
Tested on 13 October 2026 against a test site we built and control. Tools change; this describes what we saw on that date. [S-356] [S-357]