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I run a website with a few hundred thousand monthly active users. I get tons of mails from users telling me how much they love it. One unintrusive, smallish Ads
by FreeHugs 5y ago
I run a website with a few hundred thousand monthly active users. I get tons of mails from users telling me how much they love it. One unintrusive, smallish Adsense banner pays for everything. For years now, everyone was happy.
Now Google sent me an email that they want me to gather user consent before showing Adsense. They offer an automatic consent modal. But the problem with that one is that it not only displays the consent modal but also injects a smaller widget into the site. It looks like the widget only pops up when the user scrolls down to the bottom of the page. Unfortunately, that also makes it pop up when the page is not longer than the screen. So pages where the content fits on the screen behave really really shitty. Maybe that is the reason why I have never seen it used anywhere.
And of course loading the consent script from Google before getting consent is not in line with GDPR in the first place.
Other consent solutions I see around the web are heavy third party widgets that do a lot of complicated stuff. And because they are third party scripts, they are also not in line with the GDPR.
I have not found any indie developers who have implemented their own consent solution. And as far as I understand it, Google has no communication channel. They just threaten to kick you off Adsense. So all I can do is implement my own solution and wait if it happens or not.
I started to implement my own consent banner now. Not sure if I will get it right so that it pleases Google.
I fear that this whole GDPR thing might be the end of my website.
- dmitriid 5y agoAh yes. It's the GDPR that's the end, and not the non-compliant and law-breaking implementations from Google and other parasites.
- slig 5y agoMost of your users are from EU? If not, just do what big publishers are doing.
- judge2020 5y ago> And of course loading the consent script from Google before getting consent is not in line with GDPR in the first place. Only if Google uses that information whatsoever. They'd be on the hook if they run afoul of GDPR by collecting information when it's obtained before consent happens, and I'm sure the enforcement agency isn't going to fault the web admin for taking Google's word on compliance.
- dmitriid 5y agoWeb admin is the first person responsible for keeping that data safe. If they use a non-compliant tracker, well, they are liable as well. That said, EU is now finally going after the trackers: https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/05/iab-europe-tcf-gdpr-breach-belgium/ https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/05/iab-europe-tcf-gdpr-breach...