Google Consent Mode v2: Optimize User Privacy with Advanced Features

Google Consent Mode v2 provides a digital advertising ecosystem that is centered around user privacy, ensuring advanced user security in ads. Announced in late 2023, consent mode v2 creates a win-win situation for both the privacy of the user and the insights of advertisers.

What is Google Consent Mode?

Consent mode is a tool that uses Google services like Analytics, Tag Manager, and Ads. It helps you manage user privacy while still collecting valuable data. Using this feature, you can communicate your users’ cookie or app identifier consent status to Google, and in turn, the tags will adjust their behavior accordingly, allowing them to respect the choices of your users.

The Advantages of Google Consent Mode v2

Google Consent Mode v2 is a framework designed to integrate website visitor consent preferences with Google’s advertising and analytics tools. It is an optimized version of the consent mode that assists website publishers and advertisers in obtaining explicit user consent. The updated consent mode helps bridge the gap between tracking website visitors and respecting their privacy. It’s an update for websites that use Google’s advertising and analytics tools (like Google Ads and Analytics) to track things like ad clicks and website visits.

Here’s how it works:

• Privacy: When someone visits your website, a clear pop-up appears asking them to give their permission to be tracked. This is called a consent banner.
• Respecting visitor’s choices: Visitors have the power to decide. If they say yes, the tracking tools will work normally and collect data (via Google Analytics consent mode) to help you understand your audience. If the user declines, their information stays private, and the tracking tools (including Google Ads consent mode) won’t collect any data about them.

This is how Google Consent Mode v2 helps your website comply with privacy laws like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), by being certain you’re only tracking users who are okay with it. Additionally, if a user located in the European Economic Area uses your website or application, and you track user behavior using Google tags, you must transfer the user’s consent choices to Google. 

Key Features of Google Consent Mode v2

There are two parameters related to ads and personalization:

Ad_user_data in Consent Mode v2

The user’s consent preference for sharing their data is determined by the setting, with visitors having the options of “granted” or “denied.” Google will then either share or keep the data accordingly.

Ad_personalization in Consent Mode v2

Ad_personalization has the same “granted or “denied” options for the users. According to the answer, this parameter decides whether or not to start ad personalization and remarketing for the specific user.

Why This Matters

By implementing a new Google Consent Mode v2, you can guarantee your website follows user privacy regulations while still gathering valuable data from users who opt-in. The deadline for implementing the tool was March 2024, so make sure you have checked to see if you have met all of the requirements.