Hi Unity team,
According to this doc:
https://unityads.unity3d.com/help/advertising/s2s-install-tracking
a gamerId should be sent with a postback in case advertisingId is 00000000. But I didn’t find how to obtain that gamerId.
Is there a function for that? Or is it sent as a token in a Dynamic custom tracking url?
Hey @SamTyurenkov , looks like the {gamer_id} token is missing from our documentation. You can use this to have our anonymized gamer id sent with your tracking URLs. Sorry for the confusion! I’ll contact the documentation team to get it added.
The documentation still does not include how to retrieve the gamerId when the ifa is 000000000. If we want to implement custom install postback, where do we retrieve the gamerId that Unity ads fills in on the tracking links?
Your postback url in settings will be something like that
https://yourtracking.url?ifa={ifa}&game_id={game_id}&source_app_id={source_app_id}&cpi={cpi}&gamer_id={gamer_id}
for impression and click, which is initiated from unity ads. When the user installs the game, I need to manually attribute the user from a previous impression/click, so I would need to get gamer_id manually from the app so I could compare it to the gamer_id I previously received. I am beginning to think it isn’t intended to be able to directly attribute a user if they have this LAT enabled, but the gaps in the documentation don’t really spell this out very well.
Good point, probably they send the one from Advertisement package:
https://docs.unity.com/ads/en-us/manual/UnityAPI#gamerSid
I think I didnt fully configure that one as well, and you need Advertisement package to access it, seems its not available in Unity core.
It looks like the source game can provide set a gamerSid in the ShowOptions, but that doesn’t help on the install end, I wouldn’t know what was used by the app showing the ads. Doesn’t seem to be a way to retrieve any default id for a user either.