TL;DR: do I really have to postpone showing AdSense until I have explicit user consent for cookie usage?<p>So Google sent out a mail saying web sites using AdSense should somehow comply with the European Cookie law. Now that I set out to implement it, I find the information given by Google is not actually very helpful, even though they created an extra site for it: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cookiechoices.org&#x2F;<p>It seems to me to really be compliant, I shouldn&#x27;t show AdSense before the user has given me explicit consent. The typical info bar at the top (&quot;this site uses cookies - agree&quot;) seems completely useless.<p>AdSense doesn&#x27;t seem to have an option to launch it &quot;cookie free&quot; either (or postpone the ads until the consent is given), which would have been a helpful move by Google.<p>I am leaning towards ignoring the issue completely, as it is only hostile to users. But Google has given a fuzzy ultimatum until September 30 to &quot;become compliant&quot;.<p>I also wonder if it would work over all sites on the internet if a user has agreed to AdSense cookies once. That could also free my site.<p>(For context, the only thing my site uses cookies for is AdSense).
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