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I have lots of confusion regarding the implementation of the UMP SDK. I have not found much information or a complete tutorial other than google. I am following this and this but unable to understand bellow issues:

  1. Is it required to call MobileAds.initialize() after getting the requesting consent? If so, then where should it be called? It might be called after obtaining the consent:

    public void onConsentFormLoadSuccess(ConsentForm consentForm) {
    if(consentInformation.getConsentStatus() == ConsentInformation.ConsentStatus.OBTAINED) {
}
}

  2. How would I check if a user is not from EEA? I wanted to request consent or initialize mobile ads based on user location. In Consent SDK, there is a method isRequestLocationInEeaOrUnknown(), but this SDK is deprecated. I have not found something similar in UMP SDK. One approach might be to always requestConsentInfoUpdate and call isConsentFormAvailable inside onConsentInfoUpdateSuccess. This method returns false if the user is not from EEA.

  3. I am always getting consent type consentInformation.getConsentType() 0 or UnKnown. I have tried with different combination but always 0.

  4. Is it required to forward consent information to AdMob SDK or SDK will handle it.

  5. Regarding mediation, I need the consent information but do not know how to get it. From docs: The UMP SDK writes consent status information to local storage

  6. In AdMob -> EU user consent, One of my mediation partners is not included in the Commonly used set of ad technology providers. If I use Custom set of ad technology providers, do I need to include all of Commonly used set of ad technology providers where there are 198 ad tech providers. Or including ad tech providers in Funding Choices is enough.

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As far as I experience / understand Google Funding Choices through User Messaging Platform (actually it is not even clear why this has two different name) is TOTALLY USELESS WITHIN THE EU.

You are welcome to correct me, but as I experience on 8.3.2021:

If user clicks “Manage options” and then “Submit” and leaves the “Store and/or access information on a device” switch OFF then AdMob does not show any advertisement to the user. Thus, you may end up paying for resources (cloud services, employee, etc.) to provide a free app to your user. Based on the starting date of emerging the issue (the date of the posts and comments I see in this topic) it is a low priority problem to Google and/or to AdMob. consentInformation.getConsentType() always returns value 0. This actually proves (or at least I think) that how low priority this issue has on their list. It would be possible to check whether user consented to serve non-personalized ads at least through this getter. Then we could show him instructions how to properly opt-out and let him use the app for free. However, it seems that this is out of the interests of the developers.

Once again, anybody is welcome to correct me, maybe only I had this negative experience.

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  • I have the same experience... is it working for you now? – franswa Mar 23 '21 at 15:57
  • I did not try since 8.3.2021. You can try to search for another consent management platform (e.g. Tealium for Xamarin) or you can also exchange AdMob for one of its competitors. This is one of the best ways to force companies to make quality products ;-) – YAQ Mar 25 '21 at 09:03
  • All right thanks for your answer :) – franswa Mar 26 '21 at 09:18
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    I have exactly the same experience. What is hard to understand is that even on Google's support forum they recommend use other consent frameworks. I have feeling that UMP is stillborn baby. – Tomáš Hubálek Apr 16 '21 at 12:07
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I have the same doubts, in particular on point 3, even in my case the consent type is always 0. I saw in this video that based on that value a different adRequest is initialized

About point 2, I set the Consentdebugsettings with user no EEA (DEBUG_GEOGRAPHY_NOT_EEA,little different from what was done on the official guide) and the method consentInformation.isConsentFormAvailable() returned false

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