Ghostery doesn't work, if webcontent of an iframe shows cookie modal

[ca-dsgn]

Hi guys,

I just figured out that if a website contains an iframe, which shows a cookie modal (e.g. shown on google.com), the plugin doesn't block it. Is there an option to enable also blocking modals in iframes? If not, is it possible to enhance the plugin to do so? Thank you in advance for your response on this.

Best,
Chris

[chrmod]

Hi @ca-dsgn, thank you for your report. As far as I can tell this should work. Can you please provide examples? URLs and screenshots should help us to understand the problem.

[ca-dsgn]

Hi @chrmod,
sure, here is a screenshot:

And the source code:
<iframe src="https://www.google.com/search?igu=1&q=Wismar Weltkrieg 1945" id="google"></iframe>

[ca-dsgn]

Here is also what the plugin shows:

[chrmod]

Thank you for sharing!

Something definitely does not look right. I've tested myself and the cookie consent dialog is dismissed correctly thanks to Never-Consent. I'm passing this to @GRadziejewski so he can try to reproduce.

In the meantime, could you please try to test it on a different browser, or with fresh Ghostery installation please?

[GRadziejewski]

After clearing the history and browser data + reinstalling the extension, I cannot reproduce this.

Checked on:

Browser: Chrome 123.0.6312.86
OS: Windows 10 Pro 
GBE 8.12.7

Browser: Firefox 124.0.1
OS: Windows 10 Pro 
GBE 8.12.7

Browser: Opera One 108.0.5067.40
OS: Windows 10 Pro
GBE 10.2.14

Browser: Safari 17.4 (19618.1.15.11.12)
OS: macOS Ventura 14.4
GBE 10.2.14

[ca-dsgn]

@chrmod @GRadziejewski I removed the plugin from my Chrome Browser (on macOS Ventura) and readded it. After that I restarted Chrome and opened up the page with the iframe (Google URL inside the src attribute). I still get the cookie modal.

I also tested it on Firefox (latest version for macOS) with Ghostery. I have the same issue here.

[chrmod]

Oh, I see. This is an iframe with google.com inside. In this case I don't think Never-Consent can work. Let us investigate, maybe there is something we can do.

[chrmod]

@ca-dsgn can you please tell us more about your setup. It must be quite special, as you see google trackers reported on your local domain name dev.higris.

From what we are able to determine, our features should work when loaded in the iframe and I cannot reproduce google cookie consent modal when loading google iframe in another page. So it must be something else going on here.

[chrmod]

Update - one of our developers was able to reproduce the problem on our side - we will look into it. Stay tuned!

[ca-dsgn]

@chrmod any updates on this?