How do you deal with Adsense and the GDPR?

Question

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?

speedgoose · Accepted Answer

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.