The Mountain View company Google always look after the privacy of its users and the company recently introduced Google sandbox project which will restrict the tracking applications on your Android and this will also limit data collection. That means you will get more privacy on your data and for this, you require to delete advertising ID from your Android smartphones. In this article, I will show you how to do this and the same can be done very easily.
How to delete advertising ID from your Android smartphone/
First of all, you need to select the settings app of your smartphone and then select Privacy > Ads > Delete Advertising ID. Google says that after deleting the advertising ID from your device if an application or any other service tries to access your advertising ID then they will receive a string of zeros in return,
It is worth mentioning that deleting the Advertising ID will not stop serving advertisements on your device but the same will not be personalized or interest you. Having said that, this particular facility is available only for the devices which are running on the latest Android 12. The company will expand the availability of the feature on other Android versions by the second quarter of this year.
However, if you are not a user of an Android 12 powered smartphone then there is another trick that will enable you to restrict data via opt-out of advertising.
How to opt-out of personalized ads
- Go to the Settings on your smartphone.
- Find and tap on Google.
- On this page, you will get an option called Ads and the same will enable you to disable the personalization option.
- Coming back from Ads, you will find an option called Personalize using shared data, simply turn off e and it will disable Google to use your data.
- After this, you need to go to Google in the settings of your device and tap on Manage your Google account.
- Then select Data & Privacy, and find Ad settings.
- Simply turn off this option.
How to turn off third-party cookie tracking
You can tighten your privacy even more by disabling third-party cookie tracking on Google Chrome Browser and the same can be done by following the steps which are listed below.
- Open Google Chrome browser.
- Then select Settings > Security & Privacy > General settings.
- Now you will able to see the third-party cookies section,
- You just need to block them on your device.
It is worth mentioning that you need to do this particular thing separately on your computer as well as mobile.
That’s it, now you can able to restrict data on your device.
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