2GDPR, an online tool that offered a free basic compliance scan of any URL, discontinued its free public checks. Its site now directs visitors to contact it for pricing. This article explains what the tool did, what the law it pointed at actually asks, and how to run a free first check on your own site today.
Disclaimer: this article is provided for information only and does not constitute legal advice. Consult a qualified legal professional for advice specific to your situation.
2GDPR scanned a URL and returned a basic report. It looked, among other things, at whether a cookie banner was present and whether a privacy policy existed. It was a starting point: it read what the server returned, and that is all. It did not read the law with you, and it did not tell you what to fix or in what order.
As of 2026 the free tier no longer exists. The service is paid, pricing on request. This page is for the visitors who used it as a first check and now need somewhere else to start.
A scan that reports "banner present" or "banner missing" is answering the wrong question first. What the law asks, in the texts that govern cookies and similar trackers in the EU, is:
Read that way, a missing banner matters only once you know which trackers load without one, and whether any of them are consent-based. That is the order of operations a replacement tool should follow: inventory what loads, then compare it against what the texts require. The banner article on this site walks through the CNIL's two 2020 texts clause by clause.
The free Sitetals check reviews your home page and reports, among other things, whether a legal notice page or a privacy policy page is missing or unreachable, and which third-party services your site loads. It covers the questions in the list above for France, Germany and Singapore: whether the legal pages exist, whether tracker code loads with no consent mechanism present, whether the connection uses SSL/TLS. It is a starting point for the review, not a replacement for it.
A paid PDF report, from €49 by site size, adds page-by-page evidence and step-by-step fix instructions. It does not give legal advice; it documents what a site shows on the outside, with the rule and the observation side by side.
If you want to inventory what your site loads before reading any further, browser developer tools are enough for a first pass. Open your site in a private browsing window, make no click, and read two tabs: the Network tab shows every script and request that fires on page load, and the Application tab (Firefox: Storage) lists every cookie already set. Anything beyond session, language and similar strictly necessary entries is something to account for.
Your CMS or framework also documents its own cookie behaviour — the official documentation for WordPress, Shopify or whatever you run is the primary source for what a default installation sets. Read the vendor's documentation first, not a forum.
The regulators themselves publish in plain language what they look for. The CNIL's pages on cookies and audience measurement describe the exempt cases; the BfDI and the state authorities publish the German equivalents. These pages are the source a compliance article should cite; they are free, current, and authoritative.
The full method, with the two CNIL texts quoted clause by clause, is in rejecting as easy as accepting. For the pages a French site must carry beside the banner, see the mentions légales article.
2GDPR's free scanner is gone. The need it served — a first, free look at whether a site's visible configuration matches what the texts ask — has not changed, and free ways to meet it still exist: the developer tools in your browser, the regulators' own pages, and the free check on this site. What none of them replaces is reading the requirements themselves; every tool named above is a first step, not the last word.
Sources: Law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978, article 82 · CNIL deliberation no. 2020-091 of 17 September 2020 (guidelines) · Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Articles 4(11) and 7(3) · CNIL, audience-measurement tools · 2gdpr.com (access checked June 2026).
Sitetals editorial team