Adsense policy violation GDPR

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Adsense policy violation GDPR

Google stop Ads serving because of policy violation

oldog

7:47 am on Jun 15, 2022 (gmt 0)

Since yesterday I got that message for several of my websites
"Ads are disabled on one or more of your sites - no ads are serving on one or more of your sites because of policy violations. Please investigate the reasons for this in the Policy Centre."
The main reason was the GPPR compliance, I followed the instructions and did what Google needed, submitted the form today and I am waiting to see what happens next.
I checked top notch websites and they not showing adds as well even newspapers!
What will happen next:
All those cookie consent banners are not worthy if you serve Google ads, it works only the banner of Google that you have to implement on every website you have.
Actually all started yesterday.
Question: have you noticed that on your websites that serving adds in the EU and UK ?
( PS I am an old member of this forum 16 years ago but I've lost my user account, been through the major G updates from Florida, Penguin, etc.. first time I was hit by big G )

Dimitri

11:24 am on Jun 15, 2022 (gmt 0)

Peace first, then ...

With the GDPR (which is enforced since 2016, ... 6 years ago), you have to obtain the explicit consent of EU visitors, before a cookie or any other kind of tracking mechanism is set. The visitor must be offered access to information about cookies/trackers, and who will have access to them. The visitor is supposed to be able to refuse, and still be able to access the site without constraints (lot of sites are not respecting this). The visitor must also be able to change his mind, and remove his consent.

So, no matter how you are doing it. You cannot display ads until an EU visitor has explicitly granted his consent. (excepting if these ads are not involved in tracking, and cookies).

It's the responsibility of the publishers to obtain this consent. If I don't make mistakes, Adsense now has an option, to automatically embed the consent message... message which is not fully compliant with the GDPR, like all the "transparency framework of the IAB" anyhow : [webmasterworld.com...]

futureautomation

5:39 pm on Jun 22, 2022 (gmt 0)

So this may be needed if adsense approved? Wasn't a privacy page a must since then and prior to the GDPR?

oldog

11:17 am on Aug 23, 2022 (gmt 0)

Finally problem is solved, if you run adsense go to your account choose one website click on Ads > Add settings > privacy messages > click GDPR and include your privacy page.
In the privacy page you must put a link to [policies.google.com...]
This is the most important.