Don’t know if theres any good free ones? https://ipstack.com/ is free for 10.000 requests / month. I’m thinking of hosting one on our own server and use that.
@Sheekore:
Thanks for sharing! I like your idea with giving the player the option to buy the no-ads IAP if they decline the consent or opt out.
Anyone used system.getPreference( “locale”, “country” ) before? How reliable is it? I’m thinking of checking that and if they are in a EU country I don’t load any ads.
Appodeal has put a new article on GDPR: https://blog.appodeal.com/blog/2018/05/08/appodeal-gdpr-guide/
Any idea to display window with consent only in EU countries? Free way of course 
Also thinking about doing this for checking if a user is EU, but no idea if it will be considered good enough?. But checking IP isn’t foolproof either.
I think it will be enough to check the IP since it’s the case for some time now with the cookies. Websites only check the IP to display warnings in Europe that indicates they are collecting cookies.
How to do the ip-check in an easy way though? I’ve looked at some services, but they tend to have costs / rate limits etc. I know that google app engine has it built-in but seems a bit overkill to set up a backend services only for this. That’s why i’m thinking of checking the users locale instead. But might not be a good idea
Appodeal has a new dedicated GDPR page: https://www.appodeal.com/home/gdpr/
I highly recommend that people read it. One of the main take-aways I got from this was this in their FAQ section:
Do I have to request a consent only from EU users?
As the global privacy laws change, we recommend to request a consent from all users once, no matter where they are currently located. That will eliminate mistakes of not collecting consent from EU residents who are on a vacation elsewhere, for example.
I know this will annoy a lot of end users, but they feel (and I kind of agree) that you can’t trust any method of determining where someone one is because of things like vacations, VPNs etc. Given the various Facebook vs. privacy issues here in the United States, your customers may actually enjoy having that control too.
Rob
I think this is also important/helpful: You, as a Publisher, have to pass value of the consent to our SDK using a consent parameter in initialize() method. That makes me think they will have an option to show non-personalized ads, allowing us to forego the consent process entirely.
That is Appodeal’s plan. There are two situations outlined here: https://blog.appodeal.com/blog/2018/05/08/appodeal-gdpr-guide/
You are using an older SDK (if you update now and don’t wait on our new Corona Appodeal plugin). You still have to ask for permission. If it’s not granted or if you don’t ask, then don’t initialize the plugin and show ads. This is an all-or-nothing situation. No permission, no ads.
If you wait until we get our new plugin out using Appodeal SDK 2.3.3, then you have the option of passing that consent information to Appodeal. In your situation, you could always send “declined” and get non-targeted, less relevant ads, which is the situation you’re describing. I’m trying to find out what this means with regards to eCPM.
Rob