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TakesNo and the Cookiebot cookie checker
What Cookiebot's checker is
Cookiebot offers a free test of a website's cookies on its own site. [S-344]
What we tested
Cookiebot and Usercentrics send their checker results by email only; we did not submit. [S-357]
What it did
- Interacts with the banner
- could not determine
- Free to view results
- Results are emailed; an email address is needed [S-357]
- Start screen
- could not determine
What it reported
- What you get back
- could not determine
- Reports the cookie set before a choice
- could not determine
- Reports the request after Reject
- could not determine
- Request-level evidence (URL, timing, and the choice it followed)
- could not determine
- Result
- could not determine
What TakesNo recorded on the same site
Side by side
| 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 |
| 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
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
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]
Cookiebot is a trademark of its owner. TakesNo is not affiliated with it.