Google Consent Mode only works with a Consent Management Platform like Cookie Information.
Consent Mode receives information about your users’ consent choices directly from your Consent Management Platform (CMP).
When users accept or reject cookies in your cookie banner, Consent Mode can change the behaviour of Google Tags and how these communicate with other Google products like Analytics and Ads.
If a visitor on your website gives consent to cookies, cookies will be used (business as usual).
If your visitor rejects cookies, Consent Mode will not use cookies but use pings instead to communicate that an event happened (a conversion).
Events that pings are used for are:
Although you may miss out on the possibility of getting detailed data about your visitors for retargeting campaigns and personalized advertising, you will still be able to measure conversions from Ads campaigns and website traffic.