If you are a website administrator, webmaster, etc. and you also are a Google Adsense partner, when you log into your Google Adsense account, you will see this message.
Beginning January 16, 2024, Google will require all publishers serving ads to EEA and UK users to use a Google-certified Consent Management Platform (CMP). You can use any Google-certified CMP for this purpose, including Google's own consent management solution. If you are interested in using Google's consent management solution, start by setting up your GDPR message.
What this means is that if you have any Google Adsense advertisements on any of your website's web pages, and individuals from the European economic area as well as the United Kingdom visit those web pages, you are required to create a general data protection regulation message. This regulation was created by the European union. Anyways, your visitors must be presented with this message.
I am going to walk you through the process to create this general data protection regulation message. You can click on “Create a GDPR message” button in that warning message. Also, you can choose “Privacy & Messaging” from the left-hand menu in your Google Adsense account.
According to Google, you will need to perform these steps in order to successfully create a general data protection regulation message.
- Add a Privacy Policy Uniform Resource Locator
- Select Consent Options
- General Data Protection Account Settings Review
- Publish Your General Data Protection Regulation Message
Scroll down that web page and then select “GDPR”. Now choose “Create message”. I think choosing a website is mandatory.
Click on “Select sites”. Then choose the website that you want to create this general data protection message. If you have multiple websites, you can create a separate message for each of your website properties.
If you do not have a website listed yet, you can select “Sites” and add your website. If you have multiple websites, then you will want to choose the exact website for this general data protection message to display. Another option you want to work on in this first pop-up window, so to speak, is your privacy policy uniform resource locator web page.
You must have a privacy policy uniform resource locator web page. You will want to enter the exact privacy policy uniform resource locator like the example below.
https://www.anetcomputers.com/privacy-notice/index.html
Also, you must upload your website logo. Later on in this process of creating a general data protection regulation message, you will be warned about a website logo. You will not be able to publish your message until you upload your website logo.
You can complete this step now if you like, since it is mandatory. Click on “Add logo”. Then you will want to upload your website logo. If you do not have your website logo available, you can always browse to your website.
Right click your logo and choose “Save as” or similar option. Then upload it into your Google adsense general data protection regulation message. Once you choose your website, then you can click on “Confirm”, which will take you back to the previous window.
The next section to work on is “Select Languages”. I think you need to choose at least one language here. Basically, the Google Adsense general data protection regulation message will be displayed in their native language for your website visitors.
Their native default language should be what is used to display your general data protection regulation message. If their default language cannot be detected, then you can choose one here. Click on the box next to the search icon and a dropdown list of languages will be displayed.
You can begin typing the backup language and more language options might show up. For example, I picked English as the language of choice if my website visitors from the European economic area and the United Kingdom's default message is not detected.
Now you can move onto the user consent options. I do not know if this is mandatory or not. You will have three choices.
- Consent or Manage Options
- Consent, do Not consent, or Manage Options
- Close do Not Consent
The first consent option allows your website visitors to either consent, which allows Google Adsense advertisements to show up on your web pages or to manage these display options. The second consent option allows your website visitors to consent, not consent, or manage their display options. I choose this second consent option as I felt it gave any website visitors more free choice.
The third consent option allows your website visitors to not consent to viewing Google Adsense advertisements on your web pages. Once you finish these three main areas, then you can click on “Continue”. The continue button will be grayed out if you do not complete a mandatory option or setting.
The next window actually allows you to preview your message that will be displayed on your web pages for each visitor from the European economic area or the United Kingdom. At the top of your screen you will see “Setup” and “Styling”. You can customize the look of your general data protection regulation message in the “Styling” area.
Once you are satisfied with your message, you can save it as a draft or publish it. There are both “Save draft” and “Publish” buttons. If you missed a step, this Google Adsense general data protection regulation message creation tool will warn you.
You will not be able to publish your message. This tool should point out what you have missed and point you in the right direction to rectify this situation. When you click on “Publish” and your message is successfully created, you will see it as “Published” under the “Status” column in the “Privacy & messaging” tab located in your Google Adsense account.
Congratulations, you have now successfully created a Google Adsense general data protection regulation message. If you ever need to make changes to this message, you are allowed and able to. Hopefully, I have helped you fulfill Google Adsense general data protection regulation message creation successfully.
How to Create Google Adsense GDPR Message Video Transcript
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this is Aaron with anetcomputers.com with
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another video for you today if you are a
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webmaster if you administer a website or
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website's plural and you also have
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partnered with Google and signed up for
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their Google AdSense program which
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allows you to display Google
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advertisements on your blog posts web
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pages static Pages
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Etc at nausea management item and you
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log into your Google AdSense account
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you're going to see this message
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beginning January 16th of next year
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Google will make it mandatory that all
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Publishers that serve ads to the acronym
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known as European economic area and
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another acronym known as the United
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Kingdom and users
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will have to use a Google Certified
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consent management platform now you can
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use Google's own in-house certified
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consent management platform which is
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what I'm going to show you how to create
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this message
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so all you do is you log into your
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Google AdSense account then on the left
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hand side you're going to click on
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private see privacy and messaging
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and then when you get there
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you're going to scroll down and you're
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going to see gdpr you do not need to
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worry about the cpra
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these others not yet so click on gdpr
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now you notice how the message off
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that's because I have not created a
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message yet now I'm not a hundred
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percent sure
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I
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am willing to bet that at the very least
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if I do not create a gdpr general data
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protection regulation which I think is
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is attributable to
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the European Union then I will not be
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able to display Google AdSense
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advertisements in any of those nation
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states which would include the United
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Kingdom and the European economic area
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and so I'm going to go ahead and create
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this message I'm not a fan of this it's
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just you know more wasting my time but
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that's what they're they're requiring
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now as far as I just do not know if you
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do not create a message
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is Google no longer going to allow you
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to advertise or are they just going to
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restrict it they just won't show any
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advertisements on your website for
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example anec computers.com to any end
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users in these areas I'm not 100 sure so
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what you're going to do is you're going
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to then add your privacy policy uniform
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resource locator now Google AdSense one
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mandatory piece of information is that
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when you sign up you must have a privacy
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policy you must have a separate web page
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you know what I'm saying which URL is an
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acronym for uniform resource locator I
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already have one then number two is
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you're going to choose which consent
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options to include I will show you which
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consent option I'm going to choose or
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I'll explain it to number three review
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your
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General data protection regulation
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account settings and then publisher
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General data protection regulation
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message all right so then then you click
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on create a
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General protection data regulation
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message
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now you you have three
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steps you create it you you know
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select some choices you can style I'm
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not worried about styling it but you can
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you can style it so that it'll look
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your and match your website publish and
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then when you're done you just click on
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publish so then I'm going to create on
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create a general data protection
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regulation yeah get it government
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they're always causing problems okay so
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then here
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I'm going to let's see
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I have to choose a site and let me
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because of privacy the irony is that
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when it comes to you especially YouTube
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when you screen capture I'm always
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conscious and cognizant of what I screen
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capture because you just don't know I'm
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not a fear Monger I'm not paranoid but
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okay actually actually I can show it to
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you okay so I'm going to choose my own
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website you notice the uniform resource
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locator I already had one but earlier
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before I recorded this video I actually
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added it when if you do not have it
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added you have to add it you do not have
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to add a site name but this URL and it
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must be real and then I'm sure they
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verify it so you have to have a privacy
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policy all right well but when you try
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to you know join Google AdSense if you
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don't have a privacy policy chances are
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they're going to deny your application
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now this was confusing to me it says if
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you choose to support multiple languages
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on your message the language shown to
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each user will be determined by the
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user's device language okay so I think
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what will happen is that any individuals
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in in the European economic area and
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also the United Kingdom this is a
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message should translate into their
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localized language if they're in Greece
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it'd be Greek if they're in Spain it
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would be Spanish if they're in Great
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Britain it'd be British English you know
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what I'm saying but you still are
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required to choose a language so I'm
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going to type in e n for English and I
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think I may choose regular English or I
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just may choose you know en GB for Great
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Britain I might just choose Great
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Britain but
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you know what I'm saying but that's kind
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of exclusive to Great Britain so I just
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might choose Inc the regular English
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which but a lot of Americans speak that
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there's also in Australia and New
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Zealand it just goes on and on and on
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now you can change this you can go after
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you create this
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message you can change it but you have
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to choose at least one language that it
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will that will revert back to if it's
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not working so I'm just going to choose
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that
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now this is where you have three options
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these are the user consent options this
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is what the end users will see
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I think for me and ain't it
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computers.com the third the middle one
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would be best what will happen is
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they'll have basically three choices
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they can consent to view the
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advertisements that are displayed they
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can click a button they can click on do
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not consent or they could choose a third
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option which would be to manage the
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options which I don't 100 know actually
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what they can manage
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these other ones are too restrictive so
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I'm going to choose the middle one
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okay now legitimate interest controls
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and then review your ad Partners now you
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have to
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well actually you don't but I'm gonna do
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it anyways
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bit I'm done I guess I could create the
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message already
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I get I guess what is mandatory is that
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you must I test it you have to have at
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least one language you can add
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additional languages but I'm not going
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to and you also have to select your site
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however
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I think I'm gonna go and show you really
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quick review ad Partners you click on
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that and a pop-up window shows up and
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now I'm just going to choose the default
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now you can if you want now and yeah
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some some
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partners of Google AdSense they all have
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gone through the list and they know
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which you know advertisement Partners or
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that they don't do or do not want I
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don't know why it's taking so long
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oh there we go now as you can see at the
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bottom you can choose which you can
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customize the ad Partners what this will
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do is it will
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allow these you can choose them
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individually so if you want to restrict
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anybody you would scroll through this
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list I'm not going to go through because
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it's quite lengthy
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you know what I'm saying I'm gonna chew
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I'm gonna just choose the default
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commonly used ad Partners I'm not really
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concerned about this but if you are
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concerned about this
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whether it's because of the the data
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protection
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you know General data protection you
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know what I mean over there or whatever
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then you can but yeah it's not mandatory
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okay purposes I'm not worried about that
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I just
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oh you know what I should show it too
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though
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it may or may not be mandatory
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when you create this message
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okay yes I think I'm gonna choose two
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for now select basic ads I want to kind
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of I want to tell people why why am I
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receiving this message and I'll be
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transparent I'll be like okay well I'm
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just showing you basic advertisements
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also my website internetcomputers.com
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which is basically a static website it's
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a long story I'm not gonna you know
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digress into that but actually I've
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tested it and it does set cookies but
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they're very limited and that's about it
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you know they're most websites
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collect cookies more you know the
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hypertext transfer protocol your web
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server it does in this day and age it's
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almost I'm sure there is a way to hit
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the disable cookies but a lot of web
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browsers don't even like that they get
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they get all paranoid or whatever
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okay so I'm gonna choose the top first
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two
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and just well let me think
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how about not use no it's not that
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because I know for I'm trying to be
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transparent I know my website does
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collect a few cookies but they're just
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basically
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just just normal cookies that web
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servers have always collected you know
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what I mean
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and then as I think I'm just going to
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choose legitimate interest
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both oh I'm not allowed to
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okay I guess I'm not allowed to okay
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well if they do not consent to cookies
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and they can Decline and I don't really
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have a problem with that but I could
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change that later
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I'm what I'm mostly concerned is is
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Google going to punish me further
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is Google YouTube I know YouTube they
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don't like my YouTube channel they do
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not like small Channel operators because
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I don't generate that much revenue
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you know what I'm saying and I think
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that's pretty obvious I think YouTube is
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rigged and I still do plan on recording
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that video I just haven't gotten around
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to it there is a study on the internet
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that you can find that proves that
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YouTube is rigged there's another study
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well it's not it's more of a it's not
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it's not a quote-unquote study there is
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an article on the Internet it's very
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thorough very lengthy that proved that
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to me proves that
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twitch.tv is rigged okay so now I can
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create the message so click on continue
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and then it should create the message
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now again this is mandatory as of next
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January and I'm I'm just concerned I
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have two concerns
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you know number one okay so now this is
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what it's going to look like I now if
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you notice up in the upper upper right
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hand corner you can save the draft
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and what that will allow you to do is if
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you're hesitant you can save it as a
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draft and then and then go back there or
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maybe you're busy right now but I mean
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you want to take this seriously but
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you're just kind of busy
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now you can manage the options you can
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add Partners you can revoke links this
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is what basically what the website I'm
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not really worried about the Aesthetics
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right now you know but this is what it's
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going to look like so anybody over in
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the European economic area as well as
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United Kingdom this is what they're
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going to see when they when they visit
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my website initcomputers.com and I'm and
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Google AdSense is trying to show them an
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advertisement because of the stupid law
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the general data protection racket I
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mean
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hey man I'm in the United States I'm not
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a fan of nation states I'm not no you
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know hey I'll be transparent and I don't
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think Google likes that I talk about
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this but I am Anarchist but I will leave
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it at that and so when it comes to the
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general data protection Racket and then
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the governments make it mandatory yeah
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it causes more problems they don't waste
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my time okay so this is what they're
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going to look like you notice the three
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options that I stipulated they can
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either do not consent and not see any of
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the advertisements they can consent or
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they can also manage options I thought
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this was the best choice but it's up to
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you it's your website
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and I have a small website I'm not a
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major corporation so that could make a
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difference I'm not really worried about
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the styling but you can click on it I'm
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I don't even know I'm gonna waste my
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time with that that's kind of Aesthetics
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but if you're really concerned about the
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styling and make sure it looks decent
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with your website well I'll click on it
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but hopefully it doesn't take too much
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time oh you can you can the header the
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headline the body the buttons you know
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I'm not really concerned at the at this
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moment you know I mean I'm I'm more
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concerned with two and then I'm going to
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go ahead and publish it this is live
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this is I'm not even going to save the
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draft
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you know what I mean I'm gonna go ahead
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and publish it and get and deal with
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this now rather than
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you know needing to worry later okay it
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says great job you're ready to publish
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your message okay
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now it says that user messages will
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automatically deploy through your Google
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publisher tag it may take up to an hour
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now you know I don't have to do this
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right now you know what I mean because
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that's not until January
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you know what I'm saying but I'm just
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going to go ahead and
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and go ahead and enable it yeah I may
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get busy and I may forget about it okay
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so in closing information it says your
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message is almost ready to publish you
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need to add a logo to publisher message
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well
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maybe I can't
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maybe I'm not done yet
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okay well
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oh that is mandatory well I can't do
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that right now and what I have to do is
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is here well if you browse to
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initcomputers.com on the left upper top
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left hand side you'll see the a which
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which stands for well you should know
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what it stands for
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well it stands for yeah that's my logo
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so I'm gonna have to include it that I
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should have known that and and you can
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see it
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it was right here right here it's blank
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it doesn't see your logo should be here
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okay that's fine so I am going to go
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ahead and publish it after that I just
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don't want to bore you with any uh
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anything else so on closing that is how
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you create a
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General data protection racket message
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for Google AdSense that will become
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mandatory
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in January it's like
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you know
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what five months away
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two concerns and then I will be finished
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with this video number one
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if I did not consent to this government
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action because yeah it is the the
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general data protection racket was
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created by the European Union according
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to my understanding I could be wrong but
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I thought that's where that came from
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and they they enforce it too and and not
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only do they enforce it over in the
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European Union
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area the the
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European economic area which is just
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Europe so you know the countries in
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Europe which includes the United Kingdom
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Great Britain
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and what Spain Greece you know blah blah
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blah ad nauseam
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yeah and I'm I'm over here in this other
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abstraction called the United States why
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are you bothering me about this why are
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you forcing me to agree with your racket
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you know what I'm saying
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I'm afraid that they will not either
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number one they will not allow any
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advertisements over in that area and I
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looked at my reports before I record
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this video I checked out to see what
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kind of traffic I'm receiving from the
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European economic area and I received
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quite a bit of traffic and I'm receiving
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you know some some nice Revenue at least
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for me at least for my website you know
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what I'm saying and then now the number
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two if I were to decline and not create
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a general data protection racket message
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for Google AdSense are they going to not
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allow me to display any advertisements
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anywhere on the internet I just I have
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not read the I don't know if and they
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could always change
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you know what I'm saying so those are
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two big concerns
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that I had
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you know what I'm saying
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any other concerns
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and and I guess another concern is would
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I be penalized
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let's say I let's say it's not mandatory
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but they will not display advertisements
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in any of the the European economic area
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including the United Kingdom well but
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what it what if they what if they like
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punish me what what if they yeah you
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never know man hey man these are
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algorithms you know what I'm saying
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anyways
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that is my video pertaining to how you
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can create a general data protection
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racket
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the R I made that one up that's actually
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not the the correct word that's part of
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that acronym but hey I don't care at
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this point you know what I'm saying man
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maybe YouTube doesn't like it but you
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know but YouTube man they don't like any
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free speech I don't think I don't know
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if they ever have
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anyways that
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so hopefully this video was productive
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and it it was you know
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informative and it helps you
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decide what to do or how to do it and
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you know what I'm saying and then good
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luck good luck if you're a webmaster
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like me good luck man you know what I'm
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saying well I mean I don't even want to
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digress there all the problems that even
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Google has caused the panda and all the
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algorithm changes and having to worry
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about am I going to get the same traffic
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am I going to get any traffic anymore
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and then you throw in this crap
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you can always browse to anacompears.com
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to fix your most common computer
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logged into Myspace in like six months I
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don't even know why I log into that
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account anymore Facebook
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you will be notified when I create new
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blog posts create new reels and
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long-form video content you can
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subscribe to my YouTube channel
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videos on
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mean
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