[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #43715: Popup notification for Privacy Policy page

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#43715: Popup notification for Privacy Policy page
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 Reporter:  xkon         |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General      |    Version:
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  ui           |
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 We are probably all using some kind of plugin that throws a little
 notification ( popup box / bar you name it ) in our front-end to inform
 visitors about having Cookies & a Privacy Policy page / Terms & Conditions
 and anything else you can probably have for users that is mandatory to
 read.

 At least it's mandatory in the EU for quite some time now as well pre-
 GDPR.

 One fine example is the https://wordpress.org/plugins/uk-cookie-consent/ (
 I just use that but there are plenty others as well in the repo ).

 I'd say it's time to bundle something like this with core just to be 100%
 sure that it will keep everybody on the 'safe' side:

 Since we are helping the website owners create their Privacy Policy page
 and also help them include all information needed / possible about the
 cookies etc that they will be using, why not throw a notification as well
 in the front end that users could customize with some simple css ?

 My thinking is this to be more precise:

 If you have selected a Privacy Policy page from the new Tools that we are
 adding + that page gets a 'published' status, the popup is going to be
 automatically enabled in the front end for you as well pointing  to that
 page. This way there's no way of 'forgetting' it and the users are
 automatically informed.

 Of course there can be an option to disable it if the Admin wants to use
 any other plugin or create any custom notification etc.

 What do you think, can we go for this as well since it won't be intrusive
 in any way if Admins can easily 'disable' it ? I'd personally prefer to
 have it built in corewise than depend on a plugin.

 If you want a full scope of this it should be something like this (fairly
 simple):

 Title: Privacy Policy
 Text: Read about the privacy policy and the cookies we use.
 Button: I Accept.

 When clicking the button 1 extra cookie drops that the user has accepted
 so it won't popup again. We could also provide a UX in the admin so the
 site owner can select what the title/text/button  would write ofc.

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