I turned on Google's AdSense GDPR Consent Message two days ago, and the results have been horrendous. I went with the default, two button message popup as it's straightforward enough. One options button, one I consent-button. Nothing special.

My Consent Rate over my first 20 000 messages shown is only 9% which seems absurdly low, and my Impression RPM has dropped from about 25 to 8. The site I show ads on is a simple daily word game with a mostly older and very kind userbase, that I would expect to just give their consent. I ask for nothing out of the ordinary.

Has anybody experienced anything similar? I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, and even if it's only been a day and a half it's alarming. I saw in the other thread here that people report consent rates of 80% or more.

Thanks in advance.