Ask HN: How do you deal with Adsense and the GDPR?

1 points by FreeHugs 4y ago ↗ HN

I am not sure, how courts in Europe will judge when it comes to the uses of Adsense. With the recent judgements regarding Google Fonts and Google Analytics, it seems possible that the use of Google Adsense is also impacted by the GDPR.

What do the publishers of HN do regarding this?

Tell the user in a privacy policy "We display Google Ads and that means data about you gets send to Google"?

Show a popup when the user arrives? If so, which options do you provide? See the site with ads or go away? Or do you offer an ad free version too?

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speedgoose 4y ago ↗

You must ask for explicit consent first if you really want to use Google Ads. You cannot requires to send the user data to Google or block the access, though you may get away with that. Some websites in Europe also have an option between paid access or ads with tracking which may be legal.

FreeHugs 4y ago ↗

Yes, that is basically how I understand it too.

My question is what people here on HN who run free, ad supported sites do.

As far as I know, the GDPR says that not giving consent must not have negative consequences for the user. If it means they have to pay, how is that not a negative consequence?