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title: "A non-commercial project for tracker transparency"
url: "https://consenttheater.org/about"
description: "ConsentTheater is a non-commercial, open-source project for GDPR and tracker transparency. No ads, no sponsorships, no user profiling."
---

About

# A non-commercial project for tracker transparency

ConsentTheater exists to make the web's tracking layer legible to the people it's pointed at — in plain language, with citations, and without a paywall.

## Why this exists

Every time you open a website, your browser quietly talks to dozens of third parties. Analytics platforms, advertising networks, behaviour trackers, fingerprinting libraries, session recorders. Most of them set cookies; many of them do things that sit somewhere between technically legal under GDPR and actively non-compliant. Almost none of it is explained to the visitor in understandable terms.

ConsentTheater catalogues these trackers — every cookie, every domain, every company behind them — with a short, plain-language description of what each one does, how invasive it is, and where it fits in the GDPR picture. The goal is educational: giving individuals a way to understand the tools that are pointed at them, and giving compliance professionals, journalists, and researchers a consistent reference to cite.

## What we are

*   Non-commercial. Not a product, not a service, not a brand extension.
*   Open source under [AGPL-3.0](/license/).
*   Community-run and volunteer-maintained.
*   Neutral. Not affiliated with any regulator, advocacy group, law firm, or commercial vendor.

## What we are not

*   We do not sell data. There is no data to sell — see below.
*   We do not run ads.
*   We do not accept paid placements or sponsored entries in the catalogue.
*   We do not profile visitors. The site itself loads no third-party scripts, uses no external fonts, and sets no tracking cookies. See our [privacy policy](/privacy/) for the full statement.
*   We are not a legal service. Nothing on this site is legal advice. If you need a GDPR assessment for a specific situation, talk to a qualified lawyer or DPO.

## Where the data comes from

The tracker catalogue is maintained as a separate, open-source package called the _Playbill_. It's distributed on npm as [@consenttheater/playbill](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@consenttheater/playbill), and its source lives at [github.com/ConsentTheater/playbill](https://github.com/ConsentTheater/playbill) — so anyone can inspect it, reuse it in their own tools, or propose corrections.

Each entry in the catalogue includes: the company behind the tracker, the service name, a GDPR category, a consent-burden tag, a human-readable description, a typical lifetime, and a link to primary documentation where possible. Corrections are welcome — the catalogue is public so that its claims are auditable.

## Who runs it

Volunteers. The project has no employees, no investors, and no corporate parent. Contributions — data corrections, new trackers, translations, accessibility improvements, documentation — are welcome.

## Contact

If you've found something incorrect, have a question a lookup can't answer, or want to get involved:

Email: [developer@consenttheater.org](mailto:developer@consenttheater.org)