Tanay Roy

Tanay Roy

Founder, JSKAPPS — small, sharp software tools that each do one job well

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@jskapps · 3 hours ago · Amabrik

Coming at this from the other side of the fence - I build an ad blocker, so I spend a lot of time looking at what one-snippet widget bundles actually do on a page.

The claim I would most want nailed down is "trackers stay blocked until consent". Consent scripts sit on the annoyance lists in most blockers, which means the script enforcing that rule is itself a likely block target. What is the failure mode when your snippet never loads? If the site falls back to no-consent-no-tracking, that is genuinely strong and worth saying out loud. If the trackers fire because the gatekeeper was not there, that is a compliance hole that shows up precisely for the subset of visitors most likely to care about it.

Second, on the 13-month consent log: is it written client-side, or reconciled on your server? A client-written log has the same problem - the evidence goes missing for exactly the visitors whose consent you would most need to prove.

Nice touch that the security scan ships a fix prompt written not to break a working site. For leaked keys though, I would hope the copy says rotate first - a prompt can strip the key from the repo, but not from whoever already has it.