AdMob EU Consent Error: consent form can be used with custom provider selection only

Question

I am the Google consent SDK for android and I have followed all the steps listed in the documentation. When I load the form I get this error in the onConsentFormError :

consent form can be used with custom provider selection only.

I have selected commonly used set of ad technology providers on AdMob console

So my questions are:

1. For this option, do I need to take consent from user? According to documentation on Google Developers site:

Important: The Google-rendered consent form is not supported if any of your publisher IDs use the commonly used set of ad technology providers. Attempting to load the Google-rendered consent form will always fail in this case.

So is it possible I'm getting this error because of the above limitation?

2. If I have to take consent what to do about it in this case? Should I show my own custom consent dialog or something?

Answer 1

I am too working on this GDPR mess today and managed to get that Google-rendered form shown, like this:

According to my so far understanding, the only case you can make use of Google-rendered form is:

1. Use Custom set of ad technology providers
2. And do NOT use mediation

Otherwise you would need to render a dialog by yourself to ask for consent, which I decided not to, because according to my feeling most end users would go for negative choice while dealing with AD related questions, therefore I feel directly setting to Non-Personalized AD is in some level better than bothering user with a massive text and non-cancelable dialog.

Answer 2

You need to select at max 12 providers in EU user consent of AdMob. You can read more about it on this on GitHub thread.

You can pick this 12 out of 600 for start and tweak them for more revenue

• Google | | https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/partner-sites/
• Aarki | http://corp.aarki.com/privacy
• Adobe Advertising Cloud | https://www.adobe.com/privacy/general-data-protection-regulation.html

• Amazon | https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201909010

• AppLovin Corp. https://www.applovin.com/privacy

• AppNexus https://www.appnexus.com/en/company/platform-privacy-policy
• Dentsu Aegis Network http://www.dentsu.com/termsofuse/data_policy.html
• eBay https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/member-behaviour-policies/user-privacy-notice-privacy-policy?id=4260#section12
• Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update
• Interpublic Group | https://www.interpublic.com/privacy-notice
• Omnicom Media Group |https://www.omnicommediagroup.com/disclaimer.htm
• Smaato |https://www.smaato.com/privacy/