Blocking Third-Party Resources

The Probo cookie banner SDK can block third-party resources from loading until the visitor grants consent for the corresponding cookie category. This is essential for GDPR and ePrivacy compliance, where non-essential cookies and tracking must not be set before the visitor opts in.

How It Works

Add a data-cookie-consent attribute to any element you want to gate behind consent. The attribute value must match a cookie category name (lowercased) from your banner configuration — for example, analytics, advertising, or functional.

The SDK scans the page for elements with this attribute and keeps them inactive until the visitor consents to the matching category. It also watches for dynamically added elements using a MutationObserver, so resources injected after page load are handled automatically.

Scripts

To block a script, change src to data-src and set type="text/plain" to prevent the browser from executing it:

<!-- Before: loads immediately -->
<script src="https://analytics.example.com/tracker.js"></script>

<!-- After: loads only when "analytics" consent is granted -->
<script
  type="text/plain"
  data-cookie-consent="analytics"
  data-src="https://analytics.example.com/tracker.js"
></script>

If the script originally had a meaningful type attribute (e.g. module), preserve it with data-type:

<script
  type="text/plain"
  data-type="module"
  data-cookie-consent="analytics"
  data-src="https://example.com/analytics.mjs"
></script>

Inline scripts work the same way:

<script type="text/plain" data-cookie-consent="analytics">
  gtag("config", "GA_MEASUREMENT_ID");
</script>

Iframes

Replace src with data-src:

<iframe
  data-cookie-consent="marketing"
  data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID"
  width="560"
  height="315"
></iframe>

Images

Tracking pixels and other consent-gated images:

<img
  data-cookie-consent="analytics"
  data-src="https://example.com/pixel.gif"
/>

Stylesheets

Replace href with data-href on <link> tags:

<link
  data-cookie-consent="analytics"
  data-href="https://example.com/tracker.css"
  rel="stylesheet"
/>

Supported Elements

Element	Blocked Attribute	Restored To
<script>	data-src and/or type="text/plain"	src restored, type set to data-type or removed
<iframe>	data-src	src
<img>	data-src	src
<video>	data-src	src
<audio>	data-src	src
<embed>	data-src	src
<object>	data-src	data
<link>	data-href	href

Common Integrations

Google Analytics

<script type="text/plain" data-cookie-consent="analytics">
  window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
  function gtag() { dataLayer.push(arguments); }
  gtag("js", new Date());
  gtag("config", "GA_MEASUREMENT_ID");
</script>
<script
  type="text/plain"
  data-cookie-consent="analytics"
  data-src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=GA_MEASUREMENT_ID"
></script>

Facebook Pixel

<script type="text/plain" data-cookie-consent="advertising">
  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){/* Facebook Pixel code */}(window, document, 'script', 'https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js');
  fbq('init', 'YOUR_PIXEL_ID');
  fbq('track', 'PageView');
</script>

YouTube Embed

<iframe
  data-cookie-consent="functional"
  data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID"
  width="560"
  height="315"
  frameborder="0"
  allowfullscreen
></iframe>

Category Names

The data-cookie-consent attribute value is matched against the lowercased category name from your banner configuration. The default categories use these values:

Category	Attribute Value
Necessary	necessary
Analytics	analytics
Advertising	advertising
Functional	functional
Uncategorised	uncategorised

If you create a custom category named “Social Media”, use data-cookie-consent="social media".

System categories like Necessary are always consented to, so tagging elements with data-cookie-consent="necessary" is valid but has no blocking effect — those resources load immediately. The Uncategorised category is where cookies that haven’t been assigned to a category yet are collected. You should move cookies out of Uncategorised and into the appropriate category in the console so visitors see meaningful groupings in the preference panel.