🆚 HTML vs. IAB TCF

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Standard
Standard

About

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language used to create web pages and is the de facto standard for documents displayed in web browsers.

It defines the structure of web content using elements for text, links, images, forms, tables, and embedded media, organizes documents into a hierarchical DOM, and enables hyperlinking between pages, which is a fundamental mechanism of the World Wide Web.

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The Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF) is an open-source industry standard developed by IAB Europe that helps companies comply with GDPR and ePrivacy requirements when processing personal data in digital advertising ecosystems.

It defines technical specifications and policies for collecting and communicating user consent choices, standardizes how these preferences are shared between publishers, advertisers, and CMPs, maintains a centralized list of approved vendors, and ensures transparency by giving users clear control over how their data is used.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Brussels, Belgium

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Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

HTML is 82 times more popular than IAB TCF.
Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

HTML is more popular than IAB TCF in all countries.
United States
Germany
Japan
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Russia
Italy
Spain
India

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

HTML is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and education and reference, while IAB TCF is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, and sports sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Entertainment
General News
Software/Hardware
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Finance/Banking

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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