title: Is there a setting on Google Adsense to suppress use of cookies for users who have not yet given consent
body: <p>Update: I have split <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/10668292/205814">my original question</a> into two to let each one be more cohesive.</p>
  
  <p>According to EU Article 5(3) of the E-Privacy Directive (a.k.a 'The Cookie Laws'), web sites that target EU users have to gain opt-in consent from users before they set a cookie.</p>
  
  <p>See <a href="http://www.ico.gov.uk/~/media/documents/library/privacy_and_electronic/practical_application/guidance_on_the_new_cookies_regulations.ashx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ICO Guidence</a> </p>
  
  <p>I am trying to square this with <strong>Google Adsense</strong> on my web site.</p>
  
  <p>I would imagine that Google Adsense can serve ads without <em>having</em> to set cookies.</p>
  
  <p>However, I cannot find any info on this (on the Google sites/settings panels) about how to relay information about the 'state of consent' back to Google during a page request. So, my only option seems to be that I should not embed Google tag code <em>at all</em> if the user has not explicitly given consent. Which seems a bit drastic. </p>
  
  <p>Letting my serverside script set a 'hasConsentedToCookies=FALSE' flag in the JavaScript tags would allow me to instruct Google's services to run in a gracefully degraded fashion.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a setting on Google Adsense to suppress use of cookies 
  for users that have not yet given consent?</p>
  
  <p>If so, where can I find info on this?</p>