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  If you are a publisher seeing a sudden 40-90% drop in fill rates from European traffic, or if your AppLovin dashboard is flagging "Missing Consent," you are likely the victim of a TCF v2 integration failure. Integrating Google’s User Messaging Platform (UMP) with mediation layers like AppLovin MAX is deceptively complex. While documentation exists for both SDKs individually, the intersection of the two creates a specific race condition. If mishandled, this prevents the Consent Management Platform (CMP) from writing the necessary TCF strings to storage before your ad networks initialize. This guide provides a rigorous architectural solution to synchronize Google UMP with AppLovin MAX, ensuring TCF v2.2 compliance and restoring EEA revenue. The Root Cause: The Initialization Race Condition To understand the fix, you must understand the failure mechanism. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF) v2.2 relies on a standardized data exch...