Delete this secret ID hiding on your phone that gives away your personal details

MSN News ^ | January 17, 2022 | Kim Komando

[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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[ExTxMarine]

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.

[ptsal]

Bkmk MAID

[ptsal]

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Thanks

[musicman]

BTTT!!

[leaning conservative]

Bkmk

[kvanbrunt2]

Mine says: “opting out” which i had done many moons ago. How did you delete it?

[catnipman]

I threw this away after i read this thread ... so, am i safe now?

[FamiliarFace]

I had it disabled on my iPhone, but not my iPad. Go figure.

[AlaskaErik]

I shut this down on my iPhone a long time ago.

[Bigg Red]

Thank you.

[Sparticus]

"Everybody aught to have a MAID!"

[doorgunner69]

A rotary phone would be the telephone equivalent of a car manual transmission for millennials to be confounded by

[lysie]

Bkmk

[tom paine 2]

bump

[chuck allen]

A Man Needs a Maid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOuQywiRUJo

[RebelTXRose]

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[Ancesthntr]

“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.”

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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.

[Magnum44]

Clearly you should ditch your phone and get one of these...

[Paladin2]

My computer doesn’t load MSN web pages.

[dayglored]

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.