Testing consent-gated tags with Auto Grant Consent
Verifying that GA4, Ads, and Floodlight tags actually fire once consent is granted normally means clicking through your own consent banner, over and over, for every test pass. Auto Grant Consent is a testing-only power-up that skips that entirely — at the cost of a real safety trade-off you need to respect.
What it does
Auto Grant Consent ignores whatever Consent Mode v2 signal a visitor's browser actually sent — the gcs/gcd parameters Google's own tag library attaches to every hit — and rewrites it to fully granted before the request reaches your server container. Every tag downstream fires exactly as it would for a real, fully-consented visitor, letting you verify your setup without touching your own consent banner on every pass.
Never leave this on for real traffic
This is the one power-up that actively works against your visitors' actual choice while it's on. It discards whatever they selected — every session is recorded as granted whether or not the visitor agreed. Use it only against your own test traffic, verify what you needed to verify, then turn it back off immediately.
Measurebase backs this up in the dashboard itself: the moment you turn it on, a warning banner shows how long it's been enabled, and escalates to a critical banner after 24 hours — a deliberate nudge in case a test pass got left running longer than intended.
Where it fits in a test pass
- Turn on Auto Grant Consent under the domain's Advanced Tracking tab.
- Run your test traffic and confirm GA4/Ads/Floodlight tags fire as expected under a granted state.
- Turn it back off. Real visitor traffic should never be covered by this toggle.