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I want to thank Sync for placing this ad next to this post (infosec.pub)
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[โ€“] pjwestin@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, I've deleted my Ad ID on Android. My understanding is that should make it pretty difficult for advertisers to collect much data on me from any app.

[โ€“] ben_dover@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

"marketers hate this simple trick"

as a developer i can assure you they have plenty other means to collect your data. the ad id is only for displaying targeted ads, but the spying goes on