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Cookie consent for Ultimate Social Media Icons
two buttons call out
Most Ultimate Social Media Icons buttons are local images and plain links. Two options change that: the YouTube Subscribe button and the LinkedIn Follow or Recommend button. Both print a script from Google or LinkedIn on every page.
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Social Media and Share Icons (Ultimate Social Media)
WordPress plugin
- Tested version
- 3.0.2
- How
- Tested automatically around each Cookie Rocks version
- Last test
- 7 November 2026
- Latest version
- 3.0.2 tested
- Active installs
- 100,000+
What Ultimate Social Media Icons adds to your visitors’ browser
No trackers In our test of Social Media and Share Icons (Ultimate Social Media) 3.0.2 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 Ultimate Social Media Icons
Plain icons stay at home
Facebook, X, Pinterest, RSS and e-mail icons are local images and plain links. All the plugin’s own files come from your site.
YouTube Subscribe loads Google
Once the YouTube icon has the Subscribe button with a channel ID, the plugin prints Google’s platform script on every page, even pages without icons. Where icons show, it builds the YouTube subscribe frame.
LinkedIn buttons load LinkedIn
LinkedIn Follow or Recommend prints LinkedIn’s script the same way.
The e-mail form goes to the vendor
Its subscription form sends the typed address to follow.it, the vendor’s newsletter tool, when submitted. Follower counts are fetched by your server, only when counts are on.
What our tests found on Ultimate Social Media Icons
Good to know · Ultimate Social Media IconsUltimate Social Media Icons' pop-up cookie is never written, so it keeps showing
A code error stops the 30-day sfsi_popup cookie. The subscription form sends the typed e-mail address to follow.it. Follower counts are fetched by the server only when turned on.
Read in its code, 16 October 2026, Ultimate Social Media Icons 3.0.2.
Full detail
Ultimate Social Media Icons 3.0.2 tries to set a 30-day sfsi_popup cookie so its share pop-up shows only once, but the call throws a TypeError that the code swallows, so the cookie is never written and the pop-up comes back on each page. Its e-mail subscription form sends the address typed to follow.it, the vendor's newsletter service, when submitted; follower counts are fetched by the server (Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, follow.it) only when counts are turned on. It has no consent setting and does not use WP Consent API.
Set before the choice · Ultimate Social Media IconsUltimate Social Media Icons loads YouTube and LinkedIn scripts on every page
setting “YouTube icon: Subscribe button (sfsi_youtube_follow)” · by default: off
The YouTube Subscribe button adds apis.google.com/js/platform.js, even on pages without icons; LinkedIn Follow or Recommend adds platform.linkedin.com. Other icons are local images and links.
Read in its code, 16 October 2026, Ultimate Social Media Icons 3.0.2.
Full detail
Ultimate Social Media Icons prints a plain <script src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js"> in the footer of every front page once the YouTube icon has the Subscribe button with a channel ID, even on pages without icons; where the icons show, platform.js builds the YouTube subscribe iframe. LinkedIn Follow or Recommend prints platform.linkedin.com/in.js the same way, with its configuration (lang) inside the tag. The other icons (Facebook, X, Pinterest, RSS, e-mail) are local images and plain links, and all its front files are served by the site.
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.
- Social Media and Share Icons (Ultimate Social Media) 3.0.2, 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: Social Media and Share Icons (Ultimate Social Media) 3.0.2 on 7 November 2026, with WordPress 7.1.3.
Social sharing
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Questions
Which settings should I check?
The YouTube Subscribe button and the LinkedIn buttons. Without them, the icons load nothing from outside. With them, Google’s or LinkedIn’s script has to wait for consent. Cookie Rocks holds known trackers until the visitor agrees.
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 Ultimate Social Media Icons
Icons for everyone, scripts after consent.
check two buttons
Every feature of the complete plugin for 30 days, no card.
- 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.