Is it possible to check set parameters in google ads?

Question

We have an implementation with google ads on our website.

On a desire to be cookie politics compliant we are limiting ads personalisation choices. Our CMP gives us the opportunity to block that automatically and propose us to use a code similar to this.

  googletag.pubads().setPrivacySettings({
     nonPersonalizedAds: false,
  });

and

  googletag.pubads().setPrivacySettings({
     nonPersonalizedAds: true,
  });

Is there any way to check that that parameter has been correctly set? I have tried many ways to access that object after setting this param but couldn't find anything proper until now in the documentation.

Thanks!

Answer 1

According to the official documentation, there is no way to retrieve the setPrivacy config from the API. It might be hidden somewhere in the googletag object, but I was not able to find it.

Saddly, even the official console does not seem to get this parameter shown...

Until Google Ad Manager allows us to get this param value dynamically, there is a work around to check your ad requests' privacy settings status :

1. go to your page and open the development tool
2. go to tab network and filter all entries with "doubleclick npa=1"

If there are results, it means your ad requests included the nonPersonalizedAds: 1 parameter. If no results, then nonPersonalizedAds was set to 0.