The scanner-first Didomi alternative

Didomi is built for scale: multi-domain, multi-regulation consent across web, mobile apps and connected TV, with IAB TCF v2.3 strings, Google Consent Mode integration, geolocation rule switching and preference centers. For a programmatic publisher or a large brand, that complexity is justified, the TCF signal is how ad vendors learn whether they may process data. But enterprise CMP power comes with enterprise overhead: sales-led onboarding, quote-based contracts, and a configuration surface that most small and mid-size sites never fully use.

If you are not running programmatic advertising and do not need a TCF string, a connected-TV SDK or a preference center, much of that platform is weight you carry without using. CookieSentry takes the opposite posture: it does one half of the problem extremely well, proving what fires before consent and generating the documents that prove you handled it, on flat predictable pricing that does not scale by subpage count.

France's CNIL has been the most aggressive cookie regulator in Europe, and its enforcement targets exactly the gap a banner alone cannot close. In December 2020 it fined Google €100M and Amazon €35M for dropping advertising cookies before consent and for inadequate information. A year later, in December 2021, it fined Google €150M and Facebook €60M over cookie practices, including how hard it was to refuse. These were not banner-design fines in the abstract; they were about behaviour, what actually loaded and when.

A CMP like Didomi controls the consent prompt. It does not independently certify that no tag, pixel or analytics script slipped through before the user chose. That verification is a separate job, and it is the one CookieSentry is built for. Running a CMP and a pre-consent scanner together is the defensible posture: the banner asks, and an independent audit proves the answer was respected.

The honest migration story is not a swap. If Didomi is your CMP, keep it, the banner, TCF signaling and mobile/CTV consent stay exactly where they are. CookieSentry adds two things Didomi is not designed to be your single source for: an independent, exportable audit of what fires before consent, and generated GDPR documents kept in step with what the scan finds and with national overlays.

Teams that adopted a CMP partly for its built-in scanning or audit reporting can let CookieSentry take over that half: a free public scan, an indexable shareable report, a downloadable PDF for counsel, a public compliance badge, and monitoring on paid tiers. You get a second, independent set of eyes on the part regulators actually fine, without touching the consent UI your visitors see.