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Delete this secret ID hiding on your phone that gives away your personal details
MSN News ^
| January 17, 2022
| Kim Komando
Posted on 01/18/2022 9:28:19 AM PST by Wish2Post
From social media platforms to email providers, tons of places on the web want to scoop up your private data. Don’t forget about online stores and personal services, either. Your details are major commodities to most businesses on the web - and most have little regard for your privacy.
Advertisers and marketers don't know who you are. But your behavior is tracked and assigned a unique identifier, called a Mobile Advertising ID (MAID). This tiny snippet of information contains where you live, what you shop for or what you recently searched online.
Until recently, there had been very little that you could do to block your MAID in marketing campaigns. Apple somewhat put a stop to this by allowing iOS users to choose who can target them. But for criminals, if they can match the ID with a person, they stand to profit greatly.
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KEYWORDS: advertising; advertisingid; android; apple; cellphones; delete; google; googleads; iphone; iphoneprivacy; kimkomando; maid; optingout; optout; privacy; secretid; windowspinglist
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To: VastRWCon
Older Androids have the toggle option; newer ones have the “Delete Advertising ID” option.
I know because my new S21 has the “delete” option; my work Note 8 has the toggle.
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posted on
01/18/2022 10:24:57 AM PST
by
ExTxMarine
(Diversity is necessary; diverse points of views will not be tolerated.)
To: Yo-Yo
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posted on
01/18/2022 10:47:18 AM PST
by
ptsal
(Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
To: Magnum44
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posted on
01/18/2022 10:48:53 AM PST
by
ptsal
(Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
To: Magnum44
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posted on
01/18/2022 10:49:29 AM PST
by
musicman
(The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
To: Wish2Post
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posted on
01/18/2022 10:54:44 AM PST
by
leaning conservative
(snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
To: Wish2Post
Mine says: “opting out” which i had done many moons ago. How did you delete it?
To: Wish2Post
I threw this away after i read this thread ... so, am i safe now?
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posted on
01/18/2022 11:06:46 AM PST
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: Yo-Yo
I had it disabled on my iPhone, but not my iPad. Go figure.
To: Wish2Post
I shut this down on my iPhone a long time ago.
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posted on
01/18/2022 11:14:15 AM PST
by
AlaskaErik
(In time of peace, prepare for war.)
To: Paladin2
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posted on
01/18/2022 11:22:09 AM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
To: Wish2Post
"Everybody aught to have a MAID!"
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posted on
01/18/2022 11:26:34 AM PST
by
Sparticus
(Primary the Tuesday group!)
To: Red Badger
A rotary phone would be the telephone equivalent of a car manual transmission for millennials to be confounded by
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posted on
01/18/2022 11:27:23 AM PST
by
doorgunner69
(Let's go Brandon)
To: Wish2Post
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posted on
01/18/2022 11:28:22 AM PST
by
lysie
(Labeling Trump supporters domestic terrorists is like calling trick or treaters robbers.They are NOT)
To: Wish2Post
To: Sparticus
To: Wish2Post
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posted on
01/18/2022 11:43:52 AM PST
by
RebelTXRose
(Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for us! PRAY THE ROSARY!)
To: Magnum44
“On your iOS device, do this:
Open Settings.
Tap Privacy.
Scroll all the way down and tap Apple Advertising.
To disable personalized ads, toggle the switch next to Personalized Ads to the left.
You can also tap on the View Ad Targeting Information to see what information Apple has on you.”
Thanks for the info...but:
it was already switched off on the Iphone 13 that I just got last week when I went through these steps. Perhaps that’s the default setting?
Despite that, when I start talking about mattresses, I get a lot of mattress ads. Talk about Trump, and every t-shirt and mug involving him shows up in ads on my phone.
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posted on
01/18/2022 12:07:02 PM PST
by
Ancesthntr
(“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
To: Ancesthntr
Clearly you should ditch your phone and get one of these...
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posted on
01/18/2022 12:11:17 PM PST
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
To: Bigg Red
My computer doesn’t load MSN web pages.
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posted on
01/18/2022 12:39:44 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Red Badger; Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; AppyPappy; arnoldc1; ...
Phone Privacy ... PING!
You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".
Thanks to Red Badger for the ping!
I know there aren't many of you out there with Windows Phones, so I thought this might be of interest to Windows users with Apple and Google based phones.
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posted on
01/18/2022 12:57:55 PM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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