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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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