[Feat]: Become a Google Certified CMP

[karptonite]

Description

Google will require users of adsense/ad manager to user a Google Certified Consent Management Platform as of January 2024. It would be great if Cookie Consent could be certified!

It is explained in detail here.
https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/13554020?hl=en&ref_topic=10924967&sjid=11075614997312658217-NA
https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/13554116?hl=en#zippy=%2Cgoogle-certified-cmps

Proposed solution

The solution would be to go through the certification process--there is a url on the first page linked to the form to initiate that. Of course, first Cookie Consent would have to make sure it is complaint with the requirements, which I'm not sure it is yet.

Additional details

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[orestbida]

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AFAIK, for this plugin to be a Google Certified CMP it must first be a IAB certified CMP. To register as IAB certified CMP and implement the TCF framework you need to pay ~$1500 yearly.

A TCF compliant CMP also has strict rules on how the CMP should behave and look like which is just not possible to guarantee with a FOSS/MIT project, where anyone can tweak it based on their needs.

[karptonite]

Hmm... The yearly fee seems like something that could be overcome--I imagine that there are enough companies using this that we could raise this. I can't promise anything, but I might be able to get my company to foot the bill, if that were the only impediment. As for the strict rules, I wonder if it would be sufficient to the defaults be compliant. I mean, anyone can tweak just about and CMP using css, open source or not.

I'm afraid that once Google's new system goes through, there will be no open source way for anyone to verify cookie consent while using ad manager. That would be a real shame, because this is a good package you have created.

[orestbida]

Sadly that looks to be the case.

I know a few people who incorporate ads into their websites but yield minimal returns, and the subscribtion to a certified CMP on a monthly basis would significantly impact their already modest earnings. Hopefully there are (or will be) free CMP-TCF verified solutions.

[karptonite]

It looks like Google may have a version that is free for users of Ad Manager? https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/10924669?sjid=972469827319613161-NA#settings It isn't totally clear to me, what it is, or how flexible it is.

It is true that AdSense doesn't have the best returns, but we use Ad Manager to serve our own ads, and for that, it is useful.

[MyWay]

+1 for this, it would be useful

[cyberbeat]

Google should not be allowed to force people using only solutions they choose, legally other solutions like this one would be also ok.

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