Today, third-party script for cookies consent became the single point of failure at our website

How external service made our website basically unusable.

You can have it all. Kubernetes, horizontal scaling, top-tier machines, db replication, backend service implemented in Rust squeezing every CPU cycle to be there for you and for your customer.

Imagine all of that is useless because your website is unable to use because the third-party script bug for cookies consent.

This is how it looks when a new customer arrive at our website. The new customer of course needs to accept or refuse tracking (for google analytics and ads).

Some weird bug occured in the quantcast.com script and this prevents anyone entering our website from doing anything. You can’t click on Accept, more options, close banner or modal. It stays the same as it looks on the image above. What a world we are living in.

Funny thing though - quantcast.com has the same script applied on their own website, so they’re in trouble as well as (maybe) thousands of other companies using their script for accepting cookies.

We can turn it off, but then we’re risking some unpleasant legal actions when somebody figure out, that we’re tracking someone without consent. I don’t know, I’m not a lawyer, just a programmer.

And of course, I'm not completely blaming them. In the end, it was our decision to let the third party to solve the problem (cookies) we had at the time.