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Other tracking from Yotpo

Yotpo and website tracking lawsuits

Yotpo powers product reviews, loyalty programs, and text-message marketing, and its scripts track visitor activity to do so.

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What Suitcast knows about Yotpo

Medium risk

Type
Other tracking
Vendor
Yotpo

Requests the scanner matches to it

  • staticw2.yotpo.com
  • cdn-widgetsrepository.yotpo.com
  • p.yotpo.com
  • api.yotpo.com
  • .yotpo.com

The short answer

Yotpo is a tracking script from Yotpo. Suitcast rates its risk under the California Invasion of Privacy Act, CIPA, as medium, because complaints describe scripts like it recording visitors before they consent. The fix is to load it only after a visitor accepts, or to remove it when it is not used.

Why complaints name it

Complaints have named it for collecting browsing data and typed phone numbers before consent.

The act allows $5,000 per violation, which is why firms look for scripts that run the moment a page opens.

The fix

How to stop Yotpo firing before consent

Written for the person who runs the site, with the setting to change.

  1. On Shopify, check that the Yotpo apps follow the customer privacy banner; elsewhere, load the scripts through your consent plugin.

  2. Remove any Yotpo product you no longer use.

How the scan checks this

  1. Loads your pages like a first visit. A real browser, nothing clicked, nothing accepted.
  2. Checks every request before the banner is answered. A request to staticw2.yotpo.com is matched to Yotpo and recorded with the millisecond it fired.
  3. Clicks reject and watches again. When the banner has a reject button, the scan presses it; if Yotpo keeps firing, the report says so.

Scanner rules and limits are on the methodology page.

Same type

Other tracking scripts the scanner checks

Scripts of the same kind carry the same pattern in complaints, and the same fix.

Questions owners ask

Whether Yotpo is a problem, how to check your site, and where the counts come from.
Is having Yotpo on my site illegal?
No. The complaints do not claim the script is illegal; they claim it recorded a visitor before the visitor consented, or kept recording after the visitor declined. Loading Yotpo only after consent, or removing it when it is not used, is what removes the pattern the complaints describe.
How do I know if Yotpo fires before consent on my site?
Run the free scan. It loads your pages without clicking anything and checks every request that leaves the browser against its tracker catalog, recording the millisecond each match fired. If Yotpo appears, it fired before consent. When your banner has a reject button, the scan clicks it and reports whether the script kept firing.
Where do the case counts on this page come from?
From the complaint text of verified California Invasion of Privacy Act filings. When a complaint names this script, the case is linked to it. Complaints that are not yet available in the public record are not counted, so the number is a floor.

Keep going

Does Yotpo fire before consent on your site?

The free scan checks every request your pages make before the banner is answered, shows the millisecond Yotpo fired, and whether it kept firing after reject.

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Suitcast identifies risk indicators. It is not legal advice and does not determine compliance.