Google Adsense Code – GDPR

Hi simoptim,

thanks for reaching out.

I am not sure I understand this properly: “The plugin atitself will create automatically the google adsense code of the cookie.”

Advanced Ads does not place AdSense automatically. You can place AdSense ads manually or enable their Auto ads feature, but it is not enabled by default.

Would you like to enable AdSense only for users who accepted it? If so, are you using a custom made tool or something else? Knowing how it works might help me providing the solution.

Thanks
Thomas

Hey Thomas,
thanks for your fast reply.

Yes. I am using a optin plugin, called Borlabs Cookie.
There i can put in custom code: https://cl.ly/3H1x2y201o3S
And if the user is accepting the optin pop up, the custom code will load on the website.
If not, it will not load.

So how can i make this happen in combination with your plugin?

So that the google adsense code is only loaded if accepting the optin.

Hi simoptim,

thanks for your reply. I had another user with this setup who later told me that this feature in Borlabs Cookie isn’t working as expected. I can’t say anything about that myself, though.

As for AdSense, I don’t think you should copy in all the AdSense code. It would be too much maintenance work.

What you could try, and I would really appreciate feedback about this, is to add the call to load the AdSense library. Without that, no ads would load and no cookies set. It is used for every AdSense ad:

<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

Let me know if that works.

Thomas

To my understanding the case with GDPR is that you’ll need user approval for personalized AdSense ads – if you configure AdSense that no personalized ads are displayed it should be ok just with the normal cookie consent. At least that is my understanding.

@es3k
Yes, this is also how I read this and the updated AdSense conditions.
I just verified that it is now possible to disable personalized ads for EU visitors in your AdSense account, in case setting up consent is not possible. See https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/7670013.

I am working on getting the consent (mostly integrating with existing tools), but can’t give a release date, yet.

Thomas