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Cookie consent for Really Simple SSL
nothing for the banner
Really Simple SSL works on your server. With default settings it sets no cookie for the visitor and loads no outside tracker. There is nothing for the banner to hold.
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Really Simple Security
WordPress plugin
- Tested version
- 9.8.4
- How
- Tested automatically around each Cookie Rocks version
- Last test
- 7 November 2026
- Latest version
- 9.8.4 tested
- Active installs
- 3,000,000+
What Really Simple SSL adds to your visitors’ browser
No trackers In our test of Really Simple Security 9.8.4 on 7 November 2026, the plugin itself added no tracker and no cookie. What you place in your pages with it, such as a video or a map, still counts.
What matters for consent with Really Simple SSL
Nothing in the browser
With default settings, Really Simple SSL sets no cookie for the visitor, keeps nothing in the browser’s storage and loads no known outside tool.
Cookie Rocks holds the rest
Cookie Rocks holds known trackers until consent. Really Simple SSL does not change that.
What our tests found on Really Simple SSL
Good to know · Really Simple SecurityWhat Really Simple Security stores in visitors' browsers
Really Simple Security: 1 cookie(s) or browser key(s) for visitors, recognised by Cookie Rocks from 2.9.8.
Name Kept in Category What it is for webauthn_user_handlelocalStorage Necessary Remembers the passkey of the person signing in to the site Read in its code, 2 November 2026, Really Simple Security.
Full detail
Really Simple Security can store these in a visitor's browser: webauthn_user_handle (local, necessary: Remembers the passkey of the person signing in to the site). Cookie Rocks recognises them from 2.9.8, with this category and purpose, and lists them in the cookie policy when it sees them.
Good to know · Yoast SEO, Rank Math SEO, All in One SEO, Wordfence, Really Simple SSL, WP Armour, AkismetSeven SEO and security plugins set nothing for visitors by default
by default: Default settings
Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO, Wordfence, Really Simple SSL, WP Armour and Akismet set no cookie, use no storage and load no known third-party tool.
Seen in our tests, 17 October 2026, Yoast SEO, Rank Math SEO, All in One SEO, Wordfence, Really Simple SSL, WP Armour, Akismet 28.7, 1.0.280, 5.0.3, 9.0.2, 9.8.3, 2.4.02, 5.7.2. Source
Full detail
On a fresh WordPress home page with default settings, Yoast SEO, Rank Math SEO, All in One SEO, Wordfence, Really Simple SSL, WP Armour and Akismet set no cookie for the visitor, keep nothing in the browser's storage and load no known third-party tool, after Accept all.
How we test it
Around each version, with its latest release
Around each Cookie Rocks version, a fresh WordPress installs its latest version from WordPress.org next to Cookie Rocks and runs the same checks. A new version joins the next run on its own.
- Really Simple Security 9.8.4, tested on 7 November 2026.
- The banner shows, the trackers of the test page wait for consent and load after it, and Cookie Rocks raises no PHP error.
- Settings of the test: Default settings after activation.
- Last run: Really Simple Security 9.8.4 on 7 November 2026, with WordPress 7.1.3.
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What happens after the 30-day trial?
The banner, your visitors’ choices and your proofs of consent keep working. Without a key, most settings lock, updates and support stop. Take a key at any time and everything opens again.
For sites with Really Simple SSL
Secure pages, clear consent.
nothing to hold
Every feature of the complete plugin for 30 days, no card. Really Simple SSL keeps working as it does today.
- During the trial: everything, including the full settings and the scans
- After 30 days without a key: the banner, your visitors’ choices and your proofs of consent keep working
- What waits for a key: most settings, updates and support
Get your trial key
Your e-mail and your site. Your key arrives as soon as you confirm your e-mail.