Hi Niharika,
Thank you for your kind words.
“Finally someone understood the need of individual publishers” is exactly the audience I had in mind when I forked, debranded and rewrote this thing: bloggers, small ecommerce stores, niche publishers, the people who need real GDPR / CCPA / IAB TCF compliance without paying a SaaS just to make a cookie banner do its job.
Two practical notes that might unblock your “put on hold” situation:
There is already a built-in Global Vendor List browser inside the plugin. Look for “Vendor List (IAB)” in the FAZ Cookie Manager admin menu (left sidebar). The current IAB TCF v2.3 Global Vendor List ships bundled — around 700+ ad vendors — and the screen lets you filter them by purpose (storage, personalised ads, ad measurement, audience research, etc.), search by name, and bulk-select / deselect. So you don’t have to add them manually one by one. If you only need the most common vendors (Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Criteo, TikTok, the big SSPs and DSPs your specific monetization stack uses), you can typically get a working setup in two minutes from that screen.
If the IAB GVL still feels like a lot to browse, a quick sanity tip: turn on IAB TCF in Settings only if your ad network actually requires it (Google Ad Manager / AdSense in EEA/UK + many programmatic SSPs do — but a single Google Analytics + Google Ads setup, for instance, can run on plain Google Consent Mode v2 alone, which the plugin emits natively without needing to pick any IAB vendors at all).
Your “auto-scan for ad vendors” idea is genuinely good and I’ve logged it for a future release. The plugin already runs a cookie scanner that finds the domains your site sets cookies on; correlating those domains back to their IAB vendor IDs (e.g. doubleclick.net → Google, vendor 755; facebook.com → Meta, vendor 89; tiktok.com → TikTok, vendor 1397; etc.) is a tractable piece of work and would let the GVL screen pre-tick the vendors a site is actually loading. That’s the feature you’re asking for, and it’s the kind of UX polish individual publishers will benefit from the most.
I won’t promise a date, but it’s on the list with priority because your reason for hitting pause is the right one: a 700-row vendor table is intimidating if you don’t already know which ones apply to you. Closing that gap is on me.
In the meantime — if you do hit anything specific while configuring the plugin for your site (banner styling, blocking a particular tracker, anything), drop a thread under the support tab. I read all of them.
Thanks again. Reviews like this genuinely help the plugin reach more publishers who are in the same situation you were.
— Fabio
