Privacy & Messaging API

Privacy & Messaging API (google/fundingchoicesmessages)

operated by: Google LLC (get company information on datarequests.org)

With Google’s Privacy & Messaging API (formerly Funding Choices Source ), app developers can manage users’ consent choices Source and show consent forms Source . It can also be used to detect ad blockers and display messages to “recover lost revenue from ad blocking users”. Source

The Privacy & Messaging API is available through Google’s AdMob, Ad Manager, and AdSense SDKs on the web, Android, and iOS. Source

Endpoint URLs

These are URLs or regexes of endpoints the tracker sends data to. We use these to determine which adapter to apply to a request. Some trackers use the same endpoint for several formats. In this case we use additional logic to match the adapter to the request, refer to the code for more information.
  • https://fundingchoicesmessages.google.com/a/consent

Decoding steps

Every tracking library has its own way of transmitting tracking data, often even several. They are regularly pretty convoluted, nested encoding schemes. Because of that, the adapter needs to decode the request information into a consistent format. We try to keep keys and paths intact, but the structure results from our decoding. All steps used in the decoding for this adapter are documented here.
  1. Parse the request body as JSON. Store that in the result for the request body.
1res.body = parseJson(body)

Observed data transmissions

This is data that we observed being transmitted by this tracker. Not every request contains all of this data. The context of the data describes where we found the data in the request, the path describes the location of the data in the decoded request. The examples are a selection of observed values.
PropertyContextPathExamples of observed values
Device advertising ID (GAID/IDFA)bodyadid827d8162-0e1c-48cd-892e-4abd3df95ba8
ea70edc1-ac05-481c-8d2a-66b1be496a7e
830ec0b3-e94e-43e5-8722-a3a428af37bb
49b61a9c-cece-4300-b52e-26840e4c258e
fffe8a97-a504-4d14-89ab-c2025fbaf065
App IDbodyapp_info.package_namecom.knuddels.android
com.ninegag.android.app
uk.co.bbc.news
com.kossanapps.oneblock.raftsurvival
com.teix.SG
App namebodyapp_info.publisher_display_nameKnuddels
9GAG
BBC News
Mod Raft Survival
SamRemote
App versionbodyapp_info.version407
6960000
2022.1.0
11
4.0.0
Unique device IDbodyrdid More details on how we identified this property2898380B-1B0A-4C4D-8988-3F10CA5FFCA2
F04C6D92-D4FA-4CA4-AC62-DE94C8C2DAE7
Languagebodylanguage_codeen-US
en
en-DE
id
de
Modelbodydevice_info.modelsdk_gphone_x86_64_arm64
iPhone9,3
iPhone10,4
sdk_gphone_x86_64
iPhone10,6
OS namebodydevice_info.os_type More details on how we identified this propertyANDROID
2
OS versionbodydevice_info.android_api_level30
33
bodydevice_info.version14.8.0
14.5.1
15.6.1
Screen heightbodyscreen_info.height659
667
387
375
750
Screen widthbodyscreen_info.width411
375
683
667
392
Tracker SDK versionbodysdk_info.version1.0.0
1.2.0
2.0.0
1.4.0
2.1.0