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I often wonder if Google does penalize you for things it knows about you. For example, if you had your personal YouTube account suspended for some reason (unrelated to your website), might it still count that in the algorithm for your website search ranking?

Or perhaps, reward you. If say, you are heavily into shemale porn, and you also run a shemale site, might it give you an 'authority boost' as it knows you really are a shemale fan? On the other hand, if you never search for shemale porn, might it penalize your site as pure affiliate marketing?

As far as the OP's question is concerned, I've read that Google penalizes non GDPR compliant sites, but I've never noticed any ranking benefit to adding cookie optout popups.