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To disable Ad Tracking under IOS, go to Settings > General > About > Advertising > Limit Ad Tracking to On This is a worthwhile read (with excellent examples)
by casca 13y ago
To disable Ad Tracking under IOS, go to Settings > General > About > Advertising > Limit Ad Tracking to On
This is a worthwhile read (with excellent examples) on the ubiquitous "Click here to not receive third-party messages" pattern.
- ashishgandhi 13y agoThis fall onwards it'll be: Settings > Privacy > Advertising.
- tomp 13y agoSource?
- yoshokatana 13y agoI can confirm this. The language is "limit ad tracking" instead of "disable," which worries me a bit.
- sjwright 13y agoI think a better word would be "refuse", as it more accurately portrays the situation. It too is not perfect though, as your "refusal" can still be ignored.
- krichman 13y agoUgh, I hate these. Instead of disabling it at the OS level, where they should do it; they create a "let's give unethical companies another bit of information" option.
- rmidthun 13y agoActually, in this case "Limit" is perfectly accurate. The only result of checking this is that the application must call advertisingTrackingEnabled before using the identifier. If enabled is NO, then the developer can use the identifier for "frequency capping, conversion events, estimating the number of unique users, security and fraud detection, and debugging". Notice that compliance with these restrictions is almost impossible to determine. http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/AdSupport/Reference/ASIdentifierManager_Ref/ASIdentifierManager.html http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/AdSupp...
- esamek 13y agoI can confirm. I have iOS7 running on my iPhone 5 at the moment. Its actually clearer now since there is no "on" or "off" label. Its just off and white or on and green.
- dombili 13y agohttp://cl.ly/image/2U45141L3E3N http://cl.ly/image/2U45141L3E3N / http://cl.ly/image/081l2v2W3E3H http://cl.ly/image/081l2v2W3E3H
- MiguelHudnandez 13y agoLet's not forget about disabling "Interest-based ads," for which there is no path to get to... other than going to a link in Safari. The link is oo.apple.com This KB article explains the process. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4228 http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4228 Interestingly, this launches some sort of stealth app, not a hidden page in the "Settings" app. Also, there is another setting for including your location with iAd calls. That one is Settings > Privacy > Location Services > (Scroll all the way to the bottom, yes, past every single app that uses your location, about 35 in my case) > System Services > Location-Based iAds
- troels 13y agoWow. You didn't make that up. That's past ridiculous ...
- Joeri 13y agoAnd ofcourse following the link in the KB article just produces a timeout from my ipad (though i do get a proper message that i'm not on an iOS device when accessing it from my mac). You wonder why they even bother? If you have no intention of opting people out, why even put up the page?
- MiguelHudnandez 13y agoI suppose there is a legal requirement in some jurisdiction that the functionality exists, but how accessible to make the feature was left unspecified. Therefore, dark patterns prevail.
- ancarda 13y ago>Interestingly, this launches some sort of stealth app, not a hidden page in the "Settings" app. If you go directly in Safari, it'll prompt to open in "iAdOptOut". I wonder how it works.
- barce 13y agoI also liked the idea of "Dark Pattern" that he linked and introduced.
- vacri 13y agoI like how it's called "limit" and not "disable". Compared to infinity, anything with a finite value can be considered to have 'limits'. Even Apple's $100B in cash has a limit, despite the staggering size. Weasel-words are an interesting phenomenon.