Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish • 5 days ago

Disable Your Mobile Ad ID

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Disable Your Mobile Ad ID

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Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish • 5 days ago

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Disable Your Mobile Ad ID - Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons

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Advertisers user your mobile ad ID to track you everywhere, often correlating it with non-mobile activity. You need to disable these IDs and I'll tell you how.

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you can just silence all the notifications, and still know which messaging app out of the 5 has new messages, and whether you got emails, etc
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  Usually in app settings and Lineage has a notification permission. And calendar, phone and sms have their own things anyway. Nothing amiss.

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