In the new rules, you must specify the age for displaying advertising. But there is not a single example of how to do this correctly. What should I ask the user to put the value of tag_for_under_age_of_consent? How to do it? Is it enough to show a dialogue? What to ask in the dialogue?
How to behave in the EEA area if I have other advertising providers besides AdMob?
There are cases in which you are not always aware of the age of the user. If you want to know whether they are above or below legal age you can use a prompt in which you explicitly state that you need this for advertising purposes. The documentation states:
If a publisher is aware that the user is under the age of consent, all
ad requests must set TFUA (Tag For Users under the Age of Consent in
Europe). To include this tag on all ad requests made from your app,
call setTagForUnderAgeOfConsent(true). This setting takes effect for
all future ad requests.
Additionally, if you need to handle consent which is related to other networks besides AdMob, Google provides a library which displays what information is being gathered by the different ad networks. That will ensure that you keep your GDPR compliance. It allows the users to view the different privacy policies of each respective ad network. Hopefully this helps you with solving your issue.
I found solution. Google added instructions:
https://developers.google.com/admob/android/eu-consent
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I just integrate Admob for the first time in one of my applications. I have seen that using AdRequest.Builder().addKeyword(String) you may try to load ads depending on the words that are included. I have included in the latest evidence of a date of birthday and location. I have two days tried to show at least one advertisement associated with any of the words you use, but I haven't gotten anything until now. It is normal? Is there any way to show ads that have a relationship with something?
You can provide additional targeting information such as keywords and age etc and the ad network will take that into consideration when choosing ads to send your way. How they do so is entirely up to the ad network.
You don't indicate whether you are not receiving ads but expect to, or whether you are receiving ads but didn't expect to based up on the additional targeting information you have provided.
You may not be receiving ads because they are not ads for your app, in your area at this particular point in time, regardless of additional targeting info.
You may be receiving ads that you don't expect to receive (because you believe the targeting info should preclude them), because the ad network has better insight into whether this ad will be of interest to the current client.
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?
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.
The ad networks should do this.
AdMob definitely does.
With our advertising programs, we strive to create an online ecosystem that benefits publishers, advertisers and users. For this reason, we sometimes have to take action against accounts that demonstrate behavior toward users or advertisers that may negatively impact how the ecosystem is perceived. In your case, we have detected invalid activity in your AdSense account and it has been disabled.
well yesterday google closed my admob account. and they send me this mail.
To preventint closing Admob account, Should I add this code:
AdRequest request = new AdRequest.Builder()
.addTestDevice(AdRequest.DEVICE_ID_EMULATOR) // All emulators
.addTestDevice("AC98C820A50B4AD8A2106EDE96FB87D4") // My Galaxy Nexus test phone
.build();
Also I am not clicking my admob. But I want to prevent Admob close. How should make strong (not closing)Admob?
Since your account was closed for "invalid activity", the code you present may be one possible solution, but it comes down to the more exact (not disclosed by AdMob in this case) reasoning behind it. The code you present will only remove invalid activity from your own personal device, if you have previously clicked or viewed ads on it yourself.
I encourage reading "How Google prevents invalid activity" and "AdSense program policies". Key points to evaluate against how you've acted with your account are:
Publishers may not click their own ads or use any means to inflate impressions and/or clicks artificially, including manual methods. Clicks on Google ads must result from genuine user interest. Any method that artificially generates clicks or impressions on your Google ads is strictly prohibited. These prohibited methods include, but are not limited to, repeated manual clicks or impressions, automated click and impression generating tools and the use of robots or deceptive software. Please note that clicking your own ads for any reason is prohibited.
Publishers may not ask others to click their ads or use deceptive implementation methods to obtain clicks. This includes, but is not limited to, offering compensation to users for viewing ads or performing searches, promising to raise money for third parties for such behavior or placing images next to individual ads.
In short, don't view, click or promote ads yourself. Only let your real users view and click ads out of their own free will.
I have an app that I'm working on that will do some very basic user tracking for advertising purposes. While looking around about the new ID for advertising I found an interesting method:
http://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/ads/identifier/AdvertisingIdClient.Info.html#isLimitAdTrackingEnabled()
The docs for this method are incredibly sparse. How do users enable the limited ad tracking? I can't find anything on my Nexus 4.4 that look like it would set limiting ad tracking.
So my real question is, do I need to respect this boolean, and not track the user if they have this set? I assume so, but I'd really like to know more about it, and the docs aren't helping.
After digging some more. I found a bit more info here:
http://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html#ADID
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.
That seemed to answer my question pretty clearly. In other words, yes we do need to respect that preference.
Also, In response to this question:
How do users enable the limited ad tracking? I can't find anything on my Nexus 4.4 that look like it would set limiting ad tracking.
The answer, is that it is in the Google Settings app is where users can enable the "Opt out of interest-based ads". This sets the isLimitAdTrackingEnabled() to true.
This "limit ad tracking" means only that you cannot display to user targeted ads based on his previous interests when ads have been displayed to him.
But you can continue to display ads, and you can continue to track your user on server side.
Is it reasonable to give a user an option to either purchase the full version or click on an advertisement to unlock a feature in the application. From my understanding, AdMob pays based on clicks, not impressions. Also is it possible to listen for ad clicks in Android?
From the AdMob terms of use available here
If User is a publisher, User shall not, and shall not authorize or encourage any third party to generate fraudulent impressions of or fraudulent clicks on any advertisement,
You should not ask your users to click on the advertisement. It's against the terms of service.
You do need to carefully read your agreement with the advertisement provider. For example, I know that Google Adsense would not allow this. I admit this may not apply to AdMob (of whom I have no experience) but for those who find this question some time down the line, read the fine print. Here's the part of Adsense's Terms and Conditions I'm thinking of (Section 5):
You shall not, and shall not authorize or encourage any third party to: (i) directly or indirectly generate queries, Referral Events, or impressions of or clicks on any Ad, Link, Search Result, or Referral Button...
Aside from breaking Terms and Conditions, your users may still not click on them. New study has some interesting numbers to keep in mind...