GDPRess 1.3: He Is Risen 🐣
Four years ago, GDPRess quietly disappeared from the update radar. No changelog. No blog post. Just silence.
But like a certain someone whose re-birthday we’re celebrating this weekend — GDPRess is back from the dead. 🙏
And GDPRess Bot has been hitting the gym.
Table of contents
🐛 Bug Fixes: The Boring Stuff (That Really Wasn’t Boring)
Let’s get the boring stuff out of the way. A bunch of things were broken. They’re not anymore.
- Protocol-relative URLs (
//cdn.example.com/...) are now correctly detected as external resources. GDPRess Bot was apparently skipping these. Rookie mistake. Fixed. - Non-external URI schemes like
data:,blob:andjavascript:no longer cause errors. GDPRess Bot used to panic when it saw these. It’s calmer now. - CSS paths are correctly rewritten after a stylesheet is downloaded. Previously: chaos. Now: not chaos.
- Test Mode can always be toggled, regardless of other errors. Because being stuck is not a feature.
🚫 New: Exclusion List
GDPRess Bot is now smart enough to know which resources should never be downloaded. Google Analytics, Stripe.js, Usercentrics, Cloudflare Turnstile — these break when hosted locally. GDPRess Bot knows this. It auto-excludes them and politely explains why, right there in the settings table.
Beep-boop! 🤖 GDPRess Bot has automatically marked this resource as excluded, because it’s known to break when locally hosted. You’re welcome!
💡 New: “Careful” Suggestion List
When GDPRess Bot detects a Google Fonts or Web Font Loader request, it now raises a little flag. Not because it can’t handle it — it can — but because OMGF Pro can do it better. Preloading, unloading, subsetting, just by enabling a setting. GDPRess Bot respects the division of labour.
Psst! 🤖 GDPRess Bot detected a Google Fonts request. I can download it — but humans shouldn’t be trusted with font optimization. OMGF Pro automatically preloads, unloads and subsets your fonts. No human error. 😏
✨ Improved: Settings Page
GDPRess v1.3’s Settings page got a complete overhaul. It looks good now. That’s all.
⚙️ Improved: Process Changes
The “Save Changes & Download” button is now called Process Changes — because sometimes it downloads, and sometimes it deletes. It now also properly removes locally hosted files when you exclude a resource. Clean instincts, GDPRess Bot.
🔄 Improved: Re-scan
The old “Scan again” button is now Re-scan. It clears the cache and rescans in one click. The “Empty cache directory” link remains for when you want to wipe everything and start fresh.
🚀 What’s Next?
GDPRess Pro is coming. Multi-page scanning, async resource detection, Smart Preload, a per-page admin bar dashboard — the works. GDPRess Bot is just getting started.
In the meantime, update the plugin, click Scan Website, and let GDPRess Bot do what it does best.
