I found a third party site that enables me to place a pop-up window on my site notifying visitors of the use of cookies and the choice to accept/deny. When placing the code I am receiving a “parsing error unexpected token” message of which I do not understand. I am very new to coding so please keep it simple. The code was written by Cookie Consent and is pasted below:
Can anyone see why this would not work on my site?
Thanks 
I’ve been asking Wix for a while if there is a way to allow user to opt out of non-essential cookies on Wix websites, however I have never gotten a response which leads me to believe that it is not possible.
Damn it, than you.
Hi,
Unfortunately that isn’t an option right now, feel free to post a feature request here .
@Or
I take it that WIX is aware of the illegalities with regards to this not being an option ?
We shouldn’t have to request WIX to provide a platform for legal websites
ive asked Wix for clarification/guidance about this on two recent occasions and they don’t seem bothered. Deplorable!
@Or
and to the Wix-team!
Please delete the svSession-Cookie completely. Actually we violating against the ePrivacy regulation (article 8), because the cookie is set automatically and there isn´t an option to disable this or specific cookies in the backend.
@kontakt68390 What I would do in your case for at least some kind of legal intent is to direct people to the Cookie AutoDelete browser add-on, and maybe uMatrix as well. Tbh the GDPR legislation is pretty dumb anyway as it accomplishes little in the way of privacy but having a nifty guide on your website as to how to use these plugins would be the equivalent of teaching someone how to make the chair instead of selling it to them.
ePrivacy Regulation and General Data Protection Regulation are not the same thing.
Foe example ePrivacy regulation requires that the user be given the option to opt out of all non-essential cookies where as the General Data Protection Regulation does not require this.
The goal of the new legislation is to give the user the option to opt in/out providing their data.
Fines can be in the millions $$ for companies who fail to comply with the legislation. That’s any worldwide company who captures an EU citizens data without their consent as per the legislation.
WIX could end up in legal hot water with the EU as none of the website owners have coded in the cookies, WIX have done it themselves and given no option to disable the cookies.
@mikemoynihan99 Hey Mike,
I’m not trying to insinuate Wix shouldn’t be fixing this ASAP, I was only trying to suggest that in the meantime if you as an EU citizen applied my suggestion there would probably be more goodwill towards you on behalf of any judge because it’s an attempt on your part to correct what Wix hasn’t implemented/doesn’t allow.
I appreciate your explanation, since as a non-EU citizen I don’t really know much about the nuances, but even then I am highly skeptical the legislation accomplishes what it’s trying to. It’s a case similar to the fact that IP collection has become verboten, but hasn’t at all stopped trackers of all kinds from knowing exactly who you are because the tools to do so are many. Fingerprinting on its own can predict with over 90% accuracy who a user is, so the real cost is to businesses who don’t understand the technology and to government agents who could be spending their time prosecuting much more important/impactful things. The payoff would be a false sense of privacy.
@skmedia
The legislation is not there to make people anonymous. It is to give them more control over what data they share with the websites they are visiting.
For example before you could have visited a website that installed a tracking cookie on your computer without your consent/knowledge which stayed on your computer for 2 years tracking how many hours each day you surfed the internet and feeding the data back to some company.
Now under the legislation a website has to state that they have this cookie and describe what it does in plain English and state how long it will remain active on your PC and also seen as this is a non-essential cookie you have to opt in to allow it, it can not be enabled by default.
The legislation gives much more control to the individual as to what information they are willing to share with websites.
@mikemoynihan99 Well it isn’t mean to make you anonymous to the government sure, but it is intended to give you the option to become anonymous to that company in some way by disabling certain trackers. However, there is no way currently to do so with fingerprinting and other methods. So yes, it gives you more control over how they collect your data and how much is collected, but it fails to address which types are collected because there are plenty of commonplace workarounds.
Chances are if you already had cookies from data brokers in your browser, it will not have any significant impact on their tracking data of you because they’re there because of your browsing behavior. You can change settings to the most basic levels and uMatrix and Cookie AutoDelete as well as several other plugins will still massively enhance your internet data privacy/safety.
@skmedia
Only a very small percentage of people have those plugins installed now with this new legislation all +700 million EU citizens shall have all non-essential cookies disabled by default without having to do anything. This is a better system for EU citizens.
Also under certain criteria the legislation enables an EU citizen to instruct a company to delete their data from their servers and the company has to oblige or face EU fines.
AN EU citizen can also request a copy of their data from a company an the shall be provided to them or the company will face EU fines.
The legislation’s purpose is not to make people anonymous, if you want to be anonymous use an encrypted VPN.
@mikemoynihan99 I appreciate what the legislation aims to do, but as I stated before it will not protect EU citizens from fingerprinting and the like. It also does not protect people from FB and Google doing with their data what they please. Yes, millions of people have access to these government-mandated tools, but my point is not only do people not have a solid understanding of these technologies even with the legislation, but these tools accomplish only a small fraction of protection compared to powerful addons that still gives people a false sense of security which data brokers are still able to bypass. In short, it’s marginally better.
VPN’s only anonymize you to your ISP, not trackers. They’re not really a security feature unless you’re using public/unsafe connections, although their DNS servers do help prevent your data from automatically being added to Google’s or your ISP’s hands (in one way). Still, VPN’s are a different question entirely.
@skmedia
Wrong, you keep referring to anonymity regards government, etc.
It’s is impossible to achieve anonymity regards internet requests without an encrypted VPN.
No amount of cookie deletion apps, etc will achieve anonymity without an encrypted VPN.
@mikemoynihan99 I’m not talking about anonymity in regards to the government though. I’m exclusively talking about trackers. Because they are by law not allowed to use your IP to track you, it’s not the virtual network that’s protecting you from this, only the added feature of their DNS servers and leak-protection which will prevent companies like Google acting as the middleman and selling your data as part of their services anyway. It will only trip up a tracker in regards to Geolocation if it’s a weak tracker, that’s it. That encrypted data has to be unencrypted at the end where the tracker is functioning.
Again, I’m not talking about government since that’s not really relevant to kontakt’s interests here.
I´m sorry…the screenshot of the ePrivacy regulation was a proposal (draft). The ePrivacy regulation will eventually take effect someday 2019 or later…
Maybe something to think about…
