So, I've been a bit lazy with my GDPR compliance and had been waiting for a nudge. This came a few weeks ago from Adsense informing me some of my sites didn't have consent management in place.

OK I thought, easy. I'll just go to Quantcast, set it up for default GDPR and job done. Like millions of other sites I'm just running vanilla Adsense. A week later I receive an email with the message:

Our policy review indicates that while the site(s)/app(s) below have a consent notice in place, its wording fails to meet the requirements of our policy

Right, obviously there is something else I need to do - I'll have a quick look online and see what I need to fix... Days of trawling the internet and nothing....

What is going on? I'm using the most popular consent management tool with the most popular ad provider in the world and they don't work together, and no one else seems to have had the same problem.

Next, I contact Quantcast and Adsense. Quantcast got back to me with a few hints, but nothing simple as you need to check this box, plus the link they sent me read like a white paper...
I just got Adsense's reply which basically said we don't help with your GDPR problems.

Oh, and just to make matters worse there is nowhere I can find to check the current status of my sites with regards to this policy. It isn't in the Policy Centre or GSC, so I just have to wait for the next no-reply email to find out if I'm going to get banned or not.