Dropbox Shares How Its In-House Cookie Auditor Tests Consent Behaviour Across 200+ Web Surfaces
Dropbox engineers described a Playwright-based auditor that checks cookie consent behavior across more than 200 web surfaces. It runs three tests per page: US visitor, EU visitor, and Global Privacy Control signal. Cookie rules are kept outside the code. A companion tool finds live URLs. Weekly reports separate likely violations from false positives. By Daniel Curtis

Dropbox engineers described a Playwright-based auditor that checks cookie consent behavior across more than 200 web surfaces. It runs three tests per page: US visitor, EU visitor, and Global Privacy Control signal. Cookie rules are kept outside the code. A companion tool finds live URLs. Weekly reports separate likely violations from false positives. By Daniel Curtis