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Zippy
Zippy

Reputation: 3887

Google Advertising ID Opt Out Mechanism

On Android devices, there is, as I'm sure you're aware, an option for the user to opt-out of interest based ads, which can be access from Google Settings.

I just saw on the Google Play Developer Programme Policies this quote:

Usage. The Android advertising identifier must only be used for advertising and user analytics. The status of the “Opt-out of Interest-based Advertising” setting must be verified on each access of the ID.

It goes on to say

Respecting users' selections. Upon reset, a new advertising identifier must not be connected to a previous advertising identifier or data derived from a previous advertising identifier without the explicit consent of the user. Furthermore, you must abide by a user’s “Opt out of Interest-based Advertising” setting. If a user has enabled this setting, you may not use the advertising identifier for creating user profiles for advertising purposes or for targeting users with interest-based advertising. Allowed activities include contextual advertising, frequency capping, conversion tracking, reporting and security and fraud detection.

All I want to do is display ads using AdMob and other Advertising networks. The above terms seem to indicate that it's my responsibility to manually check this opt-out setting from my code and then disable interest based ads based if it's enabled.

Do I really need to actively check this myself? If I do need to can anyone give any examples of how I do this (and how I set my ad network up to not use interest-based ads) as I can't seem to find this info anywhere.

I would have though the Ad Netorks SDK's do all of this for us developers? Or maybe these terms are directed at the Ad Networks themselves?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2377

Answers (2)

Tako
Tako

Reputation: 3444

If you want to check it yourself you first need to get a AdvertisingIdClient.Info object by calling AdvertisingIdClient.getAdvertisingIdInfo(), (not in the main thread). Once you have the Info object you can call info.isLimitAdTrackingEnabled() to check the user's preferences.

Upvotes: 4

William
William

Reputation: 20196

The ad networks should do this. AdMob definitely does.

Upvotes: 2

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