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As of January 14th 2021, the IMA Android SDK
allowslimited adsto be served
when the user does not give consent to cookies, the user denies consent to
cookies, or when IMA does not receive a valid TC string in GDPR and ePrivacy
regions following the grace period of IAB TCFv2 integration.
It is also possible to enable limited ads automatically through integrating with
a Consent Management Platform (CMP). This is supported on
version 3.16.2 of the Android SDK and all later versions.
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