Troubleshoot privacy settings

  • This page explains how to use ad inspector to view privacy signals and details about your consent management platform (CMP).

  • Prerequisites include completing initial ad inspector prerequisites and launching ad inspector.

  • The Privacy tab in ad inspector shows your CMP information and identifies missing ad partners.

  • You can review CMP details like name, ID, and version in the Consent Management Platform (CMP) section.

  • The Ad partners page lists ad partners configured in mediation but not in your CMP and not included in the TC/AC string.

  • Privacy signals like GDPR applies, AC string, and TC string can be viewed for each ad request in the SDK request log under Privacy signals.
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As part of Publisher integration with the IAB Europe TCF, use ad inspector to view the following privacy signals in the ad request:

  • GDPR applies: IABTCF_gdprApplies
  • AC string: IABTCF_AddtlConsent
  • TC string: IABTCF_TCString

Prerequisites

Before you continue, do the following:

  • Complete all items in the initial Prerequisites to create an Ad Manager account, set your test device, initialize Google Mobile Ads SDK, and install the latest version.
  • Launch ad inspector.

Ad inspector provides you information about your consent management platform (CMP), such as the name of the CMP and the ID, through the Privacy tab. The Privacy tab displays your CMP information through Consent Management Platform (CMP) , and a list of missing ad partners in the Ad partners page.

Review CMP information

Consent Management Platform (CMP) displays the following information:

Details Description
CMP The name of the CMP.
CMP ID The ID of the CMP.
CMP Version The CMP version that collects user consent.

Ad inspector Consent Management Platform details

View privacy signals and status

After you load an ad or request a test ad, complete the following steps to view privacy signals and status:

  1. Tap your preferred request in SDK request log.

  2. Select Privacy signals:

    Privacy signals displays the privacy signals in the ad request:

To learn more about the AC string, see Google's Additional Consent technical specification. For consent details in the TC string, such as the CMP ID and the IAB consented vendor list, click Decode. IAB GPP Encoder / Decoder opens. If you see errors, follow Understand privacy issues.

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