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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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To: Wish2Post

I just went thru my google settings on my android and shut down most everything. I may have to turn some back on due to performance issues if they arise but holy crap...there are a lot of places to monitor!
Google, Samsung, and individual apps that all want to “enhance your android experience”.
Settings/Privacy
Settings/Google


41 posted on 01/18/2022 1:12:42 PM PST by Adder (Proud member of the FJBLGB community: /s is implied where applicable.)
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To: Magnum44

“On your iOS device, do this:”

Thank you. It is weird that someone who be interested in the research habits of another person. It is ethical to mind one’s own business.


42 posted on 01/18/2022 1:21:29 PM PST by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: rktman

Right to opt out on my phone. If your device is the same, you’ll be asked to confirm that you want to opt out of interest-based ads.


43 posted on 01/18/2022 1:27:59 PM PST by Catholic and Conservative
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To: VastRWCon

Same here


44 posted on 01/18/2022 1:34:52 PM PST by ducttape45
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To: VastRWCon

I just noticed my tagline was gone. I went back and reinserted it. I wonder when FR did that cuz I sure didn’t!


45 posted on 01/18/2022 1:37:34 PM PST by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: Wish2Post
Explains how to remove MAID from both Apple and Android devices

I'm amazed.

First time in years MSN put out useful information.

Heck must already be frozen solid.

46 posted on 01/18/2022 1:44:40 PM PST by Unrepentant VN Vet (Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? And I said, Here am I; send me.)
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To: ducttape45

Funny stuff happening around here lately. I have been documenting it for future reference. Screenshots and all. :)

I do not know what is up, But I have a feeling some of us will fond out soon enough.

But it is cool, we are ready...


47 posted on 01/18/2022 2:07:03 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: ducttape45

I hope you are wrong my friend. Because if so that means they are secretly and directly messing with members accounts without even the respect to explain why. There is a HUGE trust issue here. Yes it is theirs, but it begs the question “What else?”. Are they reading Private Messages? Are they collecting data for unknown entities? As you know... I really have a problem with question marks because of total lack of transparency and courteous respect for the members that feed you.


48 posted on 01/18/2022 2:29:37 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Magnum44

There is also a setting to “Reset Advertising ID, at the top, which “will replace your advertising ID with a new random number. I don’t know if it needs to be done, but it sounded good to me.


49 posted on 01/18/2022 2:31:46 PM PST by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: dayglored

“I know there aren’t many of you out there with Windows Phones”

I still have my old Cingular 8525 mobile phone that runs on Windows Mobile. It’s in “like new” condition, but I don’t think there’s a cellular service that will support it any more.
Here’s the specs:
https://www.gsmarena.com/at&t_8525-2601.php


50 posted on 01/18/2022 2:49:41 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Dalberg-Acton

It’s unfortunate that Microsoft came so late to the smartphone market and then fumbled. At that time the iPhone was still new and expensive, and Androids were still like “Whut?” to the general public. Windows Phone had a good interface and with the proper marketing, delivery, and support it coulda been a contender.


51 posted on 01/18/2022 3:22:19 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored

Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 was the earliest I know of, I had one. Apple started development on the iPhone the following year.


52 posted on 01/18/2022 3:40:52 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Dalberg-Acton
You're right about Mobile 2003 -- the precursor to Windows Phone. I was thinking of the latter when I said they came late to the party (2010).

Microsoft clearly wanted early Mobile to be a Windows computer in your hand, with as much desktop functionality as could be squeezed into a handheld at that time. WinCE with a Windows file system, even.

Unfortunately, that's not what mobile devices were or are about -- they are media consumption devices, gaming, social media, and BTW a cell phone. It took the iPhone to bring that concept screaming into the general consciousness, and Microsoft pooh-poohed it (see famous video interview with Steve Ballmer deriding the iPhone).

One might argue, of course, that Apple saw the error of Microsoft's ways with Mobile, and benefited from that in creating the iPhone, but they already had the iPod etc. to work with and had seen the future.

53 posted on 01/18/2022 4:33:48 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: rktman; Wish2Post
"Android. Button left or right?"
You have to hit it EXACTLY in the middle. Try it once and it might turn blue, try it again it may go "greyed out".

Just keep trying until it stays RED. Then you've got it.

Good post Wish - just ignore the snark. ;-)

54 posted on 01/18/2022 6:09:15 PM PST by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ; - )
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To: Tunehead54

Thanks.


55 posted on 01/18/2022 8:35:24 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Magnum44

memories of my old K-pro luggable computer


56 posted on 01/19/2022 4:20:53 AM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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