Well ... that's really bad. For pure backend services there is no other way 
then using service accounts and this poses a major security risk.
Are there any plan on improving on this? Maybe allow service accounts to be 
invited as users to a google ads account so that they can be managed 
similarly to normal user accounts?

On Thursday, 4 November 2021 at 11:25:09 UTC+1 adsapi wrote:

> Hi Jakob,
>
>  
>
> I'm Kevin from the Google Ads API Team. I'll my best to answer your 
> question.
>
>  
>
> As stated in our documentation 
> <https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/oauth/service-accounts#prerequisites>,
>  
> Google Ads does not support using service accounts without impersonation. 
> I'm afraid that there's no way to manage permissions for a service account 
> in Google Ads.
>
>  
>
> Let me know if you have any further clarification.
>
>  
>
> Regards,
> [image: Google Logo] 
> Kevin Gil Soriano 
> Google Ads API Team 
>   
>
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