Audit-grade consent the native banner skips
Shopify's native banner is real: it shows in the UK and EEA when you have active markets there, supports all 32 languages, honors GPC, and feeds the Customer Privacy API. Where it stops: it governs Shopify's own cookies and Pixels, so Shopify's own docs say third-party trackers you added may need a separate banner or custom logic; it has no out-of-the-box Google Consent Mode v2 wiring and no exportable consent log. Amabrik's cookie consent holds any declared tracker (not just Shopify's) until a visitor consents by category, signals Consent Mode v2 and GPC, and keeps a 13-month consent log you can export. That's the gap between looking compliant and being compliant.