Fast Free Cookie Consent with Silktide for Side Projects

#microsoft/clarity #dev #javascript #vercel/nextjs

Microsoft Clarity needed consent. Another thing for the endless TODO list when all I want to do is ship.

Found a free, open-source consent manager from Silktide. No account, no credit card, just a simple javascript snippet. Took me like 15 minutes to get working.

A couple quick tips if you use it:

Avoid Ad-blockers. Ad-blocker's are aggressive and block anything with "consent" or "cookie" in the name. Rename the .js file to something generic like cs.js.
Script Placement. Put the script tag at the end of your <body>, not in the <head>.
For Next.js builders. The init script has to run client-side. Make sure you call it inside a useEffect hook. Took me a min to figure that one out.
Tell Clarity. You need to actually tell Clarity about the user's choice. Hook this into the Silktide callbacks. It looks something like this:

if (typeof window.clarity === "function") {
  window.clarity('consent', true)
  window.clarity('consentv2', {
	ad_storage: "granted",
	analytics_Storage: "granted"
  }); 
}

Saved me a ton of headache so I could get back to building. Hope this helps.

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Fast, Free Cookie Consent For Your Side Project