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Compliance by Hu-manity.co
Compliance feels easy until the scary emails and intrusive AI greeters arrive.
GrowingPoor rating
56/100
Easy setup is overshadowed by aggressive upselling and bugs that break site functionality.
Active installs
~1.1 million
our estimate · wp.org shows 900k+
Rating
4.8★
3,022 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+134%
Growing fast
2,671 → 6,238 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MAJORverified rating is 3.11★
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +134% in the last year
2,671/day a year ago→6,238/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayCompliance by Hu-manity.co is a GDPR/cookie consent plugin that users find easy to set up and reasonably functional, but it is undermined by recurring bugs, plugin conflicts, upsell pressure tactics, and concerns about active maintenance.
What people like
- +Easy to set up and get running×5
- +Cookie preferences persist for returning visitors without re-prompting
- +Offers meaningful customisation options even on the free tier
- +Covers the legal requirements for GDPR compliance
Common complaints
- −Breaks other plugins — reported conflict with ReCaptcha Pro and flipbook scripts stop loading after banner interaction×2
- −Scare-tactic emails warning of fines sent to pressure users into upgrading to a paid license
- −Intrusive AI greeter added to sites; removing it requires a paid upgrade
- −Dashboard notification cannot be dismissed — the 'Ignore notification' link is non-functional
- −Banner position setting fails to save — AJAX error on save, and the setting reverts after page refresh (since 3.0.5)
- −Plugin not updated in several months and untested with the current WordPress version
- −Support requests go unanswered
Review trustReviews look organic
- 3.11★Verified rating — drops from 4.80★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 17%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-10-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 3,022 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-16★★★★★PessimoCorrado Prever
- 2026-03-15★★★★★Easy Cookie SetupLuke
- 2026-03-04★★★★★The plugin modifies JavaScriptUmberto
- 2026-02-27★★★★★Low threshold and scary emaildendenzilla
- 2025-12-10★★★★★Notifications pollute the dashboardjgasba
- 2025-12-09★★★★★Makes a bad job goodSilhouettist
- 2025-11-28★★★★★Not compatible with ReCaptcha Pro by BestWebsoft pluginleadfoot12000
- 2025-10-25★★★★★Does what it says on the tinArthur
- 2025-09-20★★★★★Customer cookie settings stay after first viewcencerrita
- 2025-09-14★★★★★Great, easy to use GDPR pluginfruitlessnoodle
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Compliance by Hu-manity.co
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the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
6,460
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
6,460
Prior 7-day baseline
6,466
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
172,070
Mean release-day peak (30d)
215,816
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
0.0%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
10%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.88
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
50%
5★ share in analyzed sample
17%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-46%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.30 → 3.11★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered