Skillshare
Skillshare is an online learning platform focused on creative skills. Course preview and enrollment widgets may be embedded on partner and affiliate sites, enabling visitors to preview course content and initiate sign-ups. Scripts may track referral activity.
Overview
Skillshare is an online learning marketplace focused on creative disciplines — design, illustration, photography, video production, and freelancing. When detected on third-party websites, Skillshare appears through affiliate enrollment widgets, course preview embeds, and referral tracking scripts on partner and creator sites. The platform's presence on external websites is primarily driven by its affiliate marketing program, which compensates partners for driving new subscriber sign-ups.
What This Script Does
Skillshare embeds and tracking scripts serve affiliate marketing and course promotion purposes.
- Course embeds: Preview widgets load from Skillshare's CDN, displaying course thumbnails, instructor information, and sign-up CTAs within the host page
- Affiliate tracking: JavaScript tags track referral clicks and attribute new subscriber sign-ups to the referring partner. Cookies store affiliate identifiers and click timestamps for conversion attribution.
- Cookies set: Persistent first-party cookies storing affiliate referral identifiers with multi-day expiry windows for conversion attribution. Session cookies maintain the enrollment flow state.
- Data collected: Click events on affiliate links, referral source URLs, conversion events (free trial starts, paid subscriptions), and affiliate partner identifiers. Browser and device information may be collected for fraud prevention in the affiliate program.
- No behavioral tracking: The tracking is focused on affiliate conversion attribution, not on monitoring browsing behavior across the host website.
Consent & Compliance
Skillshare falls under functional and marketing consent categories.
Under GDPR and ePrivacy, course preview embeds serve a functional content display purpose. However, the affiliate tracking cookies set for conversion attribution constitute non-essential cookie storage under the ePrivacy Directive, falling into the marketing category. The persistent affiliate cookies store referral identifiers that link visitor actions to advertising partners.
Under CCPA/CPRA, affiliate tracking data and conversion attribution constitute processing of personal information. The sharing of conversion data with affiliate partners may constitute "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Should You Block This Without Consent?
Conditional. Static course preview content can display as functional elements. The affiliate tracking scripts that set persistent cookies for conversion attribution should be blocked until marketing consent is granted. If the host site earns affiliate commissions from Skillshare referrals, the tracking cookies are marketing tools and require consent.
Is Skillshare GDPR compliant?
Skillshare typically loads functional and marketing trackers, which are not strictly necessary for your site to work. Under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive, non-essential cookies and trackers must stay blocked until a visitor gives clear opt-in consent. So Skillshare can be fully GDPR compliant, but only if your site holds its scripts until consent is granted and lets visitors decline just as easily. Compliance depends on how your site loads Skillshare, not on Skillshare itself.
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