How The Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets

Re:How The Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its ... by smallerfish on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @03:59PM (#39543345)

Android lets you delete the advertising id that's mentioned in the article, as well as reset it. Does anybody who is in Adtech know what that does in terms of identifiability on brokers? Am I now "anon at location x,y", or am I "anon4321 at location x,y”?

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Re:How The Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its ... by licheness on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @04:36PM (#39543737)

Never underestimate the power of metadata. An expired ID that patterns quite similar to a new ID is quite easy to identify.

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Re:How The Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its ... by neves on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @05:07PM (#39544101)

it looks like you stay with "no id". There is just an option "get a new advertising id"

Here how to delete it in Android and Apple: https://www.eff.org/pt-br/deeplinks/2022/05/how-disable-ad-i...

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Re:How The Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its ... by crtasm on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @09:23PM (#39545891)

If you have Android 12+, well that's another reason for me to replace my fairly old phone.

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Re:How The Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its ... by crtasm on Friday March 01, 2024 @01:37PM (#39565112)

Turns out I do have the option on LineageOS Android 10 and my ID is already "deleted". Perhaps I clicked the option myself at some point.

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Re:How The Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its ... by neves on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @05:08PM (#39544111)

here how to delete it: https://www.eff.org/pt-br/deeplinks/2022/05/how-disable-ad-i...

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