Would your website survive an Abmahnung?
Enter a URL. Get a scan of the classic technical Abmahn traps on German websites: Google Fonts, Impressum, Datenschutzerklärung, and trackers that fire before consent. Automated technical scan, not legal advice.
Scans the delivered HTML of one page plus its legal pages. No legal advice (kein Rechtsrat), nothing stored.
What this checks
Google Fonts
Whether fonts load from Google servers: the LG München classic behind thousands of Abmahn letters.
Pflichtangaben
Impressum and Datenschutzerklärung: linked from the page, reachable, and not obviously incomplete.
Tracking before consent
US trackers, tracking cookies on the first response, and whether a consent platform gates them.
Embeds
Google Maps, YouTube, reCAPTCHA and similar embeds that transfer visitor data on page load.
Outdated legal texts
Links to the EU dispute platform shut down in July 2025, and citations of the TMG, RStV, TTDSG, or Privacy Shield.
Abmahn risks on the list?
We fix the legal-technical layer properly: consent, embeds, legal pages, and a deploy process that keeps them compliant.
Questions about the Abmahn-Check
What is an Abmahnung?
A formal cease-and-desist letter under German law, usually from a lawyer, with a fee and a declaration to sign. Websites get them for issues that are easy to detect from outside, which is what this check looks for.
Why are Google Fonts a problem?
In January 2022 the Landgericht München I ruled that loading Google Fonts from Google's servers passes the visitor's IP address to Google without consent (3 O 17493/20) and awarded damages. A wave of Abmahnungen followed. Hosting the font files yourself removes the issue.
What does the check look for?
Remotely loaded Google Fonts, a missing or incomplete Impressum (§ 5 DDG), a missing or thin privacy policy, US trackers in the delivered HTML before consent, tracking cookies on the first response, and embeds that need consent, such as Google Maps, YouTube, and reCAPTCHA. It also flags legal texts that went stale: a link to the EU dispute platform (shut down on 20 July 2025) and citations of the TMG, RStV, TTDSG, or Privacy Shield.
Do I still need the OS-platform link in my Impressum?
No. The EU shut down its online dispute resolution platform on 20 July 2025 (Regulation (EU) 2024/3228), and the duty to link it ended with it. A link to a platform that no longer exists can now be read as misleading, so remove it from the Impressum, terms, and marketplace profiles.
How is it different from the Cookie Scanner?
The Abmahn-Check reads the HTML the server delivers, which is fast and catches the classic traps. The Cookie Scanner drives a real browser through before consent, reject, and accept, and catches the trackers a tag manager injects later. Run both.
Is this legal advice?
No. It is an automated technical scan. A lawyer assesses what a finding means for your site; we build the fix.
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