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How to Disable Ad ID Tracking on iOS and Android, and Why You Should Do It Now

It’s easy to do and reduces the amount of personal data secretly floating around the data brokers about you. No reason to not just go and do it now.

Disabling this ID makes it substantially harder for most advertisers and data brokers to track you. These industries process data from millions or billions of users every day, and they rely on convenient technologies like the ad ID to make that kind of scale possible. Removing this tool from their toolbox will result in substantially less data that can be associated with you in the wild. It is not only beneficial to your privacy, it also makes the surveillance advertising industry less profitable