Global Privacy Control is game changer .... if only you knew it was working

GPC is now a legal requirement for many companies. As recently as January 1, 2026, companies that are required to comply must display an indicator on their site that they honored your GPC request. The problem is that GPC is just a “hand raise” to tell the company to opt you out. But are they? In many cases they say they are, but they aren’t. This is testable, but it’s laborious and even the most privacy-minded surfers can’t be bothered to fully validate a site is working as they say it is. I was facing this problem as I operated a large website and was face-to-face with the daily challenges of implementing privacy controls, ensuring they were still working, and displaying accurate information to our users. There simply wasn’t a way for me to quickly test whether GPC was being honored at scale. So I built my own solution. I scan a site with and without GPC and log all the trackers, categorize them, and see which are still leveraged with GPC enabled. Immediate red flags. So I have this tool that’s useful to me, but I don’t know what to do with it now. Is this useful for consumers? Businesses? Regulators? Or does this tool already exist out there already?