Firebase Analytics Disable Audience Country Tracking

Question

I'm working on an application where location tracking is strictly not allowed. I want to use Firebase Analytic's other features like PageTransitions and Crashalitics, but if I cannot disable the Audience location tracking, I cannot use any of it. Is this something I disable in the AndroidManifest and Info.plist files? Or something I disable in the console? Is it possible to disable just this one feature of Firebase Analytics?

I'm using flutter with firebase dependencies:

  firebase_auth: 0.8.4+2
  cloud_firestore: 0.9.13+1
  firebase_analytics: 2.1.1+2

I've disabled Ad ID tracking in Android, but in the documentation it looks like it is not possible to disable this for iOS?

Solution

There is no way to disable the geography information. Analytics uses IP addresses to derive the geolocation of a visitor. Customers may apply IP masking so that Google Analytics uses only a portion of an IP address collected, rather than the entire address. In addition, customers can override IPs at will using their IP Override feature.

Sources: Analytics Help: Safeguarding your data, Data Collection: Google Analytics for Firebase data collection, Automatically collected user properties, Google Analytics for Firebase Use Policy

Comments

[Frank van Puffelen]

Firebase Analytics' location information is derived from the IP address that the device reports. As far as I know it is not using the device's built-in location information.

[Corey Cole]

Even if it is only using IP address information, I'd still like to be able to opt-out of tracking that.