How to read consent choices in unity in C#

[Romain Bitard]

Following this link : https://developers.google.com/admob/unity/privacy/gdpr

it says how to read consent choices from android/ios. How can we do that from C# with unity ? Is there a bridge or some classes we can use ?

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Consent is not represented by a single bit, but rather a set of purposes and vendors as defined in the IAB TCF specification. See Consent Policies: Personalized & Non-Personalized Ads for criteria for Google Ads personalization.

See how to read consent choices (Android | iOS) for information on reading consent choices programmatically. The IAB also provides a web tool where you can manually decode the TC String.

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[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hi,

Thank you for contacting the Mobile Ads SDK Support team.

I will check with our team regarding your query and one of my team members will reach out to you once we have an update on this. Meanwhile, your patience is highly appreciated.

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Thanks,
 

Mobile Ads SDK Team

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hi Romain,

You are correct that this is possible. `ApplicationPreferences` wraps around the apis used by Android and iOS.Here is some sample code to help you out.

 

  // Example value: "1111111111"
  string purposeConsents = ApplicationPreferences.GetString("IABTCF_PurposeConsents");
  // Purposes are zero-indexed. Index 0 contains information about Purpose 1.
  if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(purposeConsents))
  {
    char purposeOneString = purposeConsents[0];
    boolean hasConsentForPurposeOne = purposeOneString == '1';
  }

 

 

Hope this helps,

Nick

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[Romain Bitard]

Hello, Thank you for your response. ApplicationPreferences only have setters not getters. In which version of unity admob sdk is it available ?

[Romain Bitard]

I tried to upgrade admob sdk but it seems to be located elsewhere, do you know what has to be done to get access to GetString method ?

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hi Romain,


This change is available now on GitHub and will be distributed with the next release.

[Romain Bitard]

Thanks for the reply, that's what I saw too

[Peter Gambell]

Hi Mobile Ads SDK team,

Will the next release of the Google Mobile Ads Unity plugin be soon? I'm keen to update to get this change to the ApplicationPreferences.

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hi Peter,


I do not have an exact release date, but we are at work for our next release and hope to deliver it soon.

Thanks,

[Nathan McKean]

Can you confirm if ApplicationPreferences.GetString("IABTCF_PUrposeConsents"); is now supposed to be returning a value for Unity in C# because I keep getting a null response and would prefer to know if it is fruitless trying to fix my problem. (I am querying from the Unity Editor on a PC to test the implementation).

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hi Nathan,

I can confirm this issue was fixed in version 9.0.0 of the Google mobile ads SDK for Unity.
 

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Thanks,
 

Nicholas Ventimiglia Mobile Ads SDK Team

[Peter Gambell]

Are there any plans to add a default value parameter to the ApplicationPreferences.GetString and  ApplicationPreferences.GetInt methods so that we can tell if there is no value set for these keys?
Or adding another method that we can call to see if the key value exists? e.g. ApplicationPreferences.HasKey(string key) which returns a boolean

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hi Peter,

I will bring up the request to extend the API. As a work around, have you tried using `String.IsNullOrEmpty()` on the result?

[Peter Gambell]

I haven't tried that, but I suspect it will work for the GetString method's returned value. It's more the GetInt method that is an issue, as e.g. ApplicationPreferences.GetInt("IABTCF_gdprApplies") will return 0 if GDPR does not apply, but I think also returns 0 if the key isn't set.