[Post July 31st, 2024] Remove the conditionality for including Switzerland in the list of regions for the EU user consent policy.

[techanvil]

Feature Description

Once July 31st, 2024 has passed, the EU user consent policy will apply to Switzerland and the conditionality for including it introduced via #8643 should be removed (i.e. the date / feature flag check).

See the PR for the issue, #8704, for code-level details. Any code relating to the change which is no longer needed should be removed.

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Acceptance criteria

• Switzerland (country code CH) should always be included in the list of "consent mode regions" in Site Kit, without a feature flag or date condition.
• The consentModeSwitzerland feature flag should be removed.

Implementation Brief

• Remove the consentModeSwitzerland feature flag from feature-flags.json.
• In includes/Core/Consent_Mode/Regions.php, add 'CH' to the array EU_USER_CONSENT_POLICY and remove the condition completely in get_regions:- this function should now simply return EU_USER_CONSENT_POLICY.
• Update assets/js/components/consent-mode/ConfirmDisableConsentModeDialog.js, removing the two conditions on 'CH' being included in the list of regions. The copy for both the Ads connected and not connected states should mention Switzerland:
  • When the Ads module is not connected the subtitle copy should be: Disabling consent mode may affect your ability in the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland to:
  • When the Ads module is connected the subtitle copy should be: Disabling consent mode may affect your ability to track these in the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland:

Test Coverage

• Remove use requirement of the feature flag in assets/js/components/consent-mode/ConfirmDisableConsentModeDialog.test.js, in the should display appropriate subtitle with Ads connected and Switzerland included in list of consent mode regions test.
• Update the tests assets/js/components/consent-mode/ConfirmDisableConsentModeDialog.test.js. Only two tests should be required:
  • should display appropriate subtitle with Ads not connected
  • should display appropriate subtitle with Ads connected
  • Switzerland should always be included in the subtitle copy.
  • Also remove the requirement for the feature flag in these tests.
• In tests/e2e/specs/front-end/consent-mode.test.js, remove the test includes Switzerland (CH) in the list of regions when the consentModeSwitzerland feature flag is enabled.

QA Brief

Changelog entry

[tofumatt]

IB ✅

[tofumatt]

Moving this to the backlog, but since we don't have sprints/releases as far ahead as August, just leaving the title in here for now. Please don't work on this for awhile 😅