Zero Tracking
Can I please have an absolute zero tracking button please.
Nuff said.
Google has shared details of upcoming changes to Android including the ability to blank a device's advertising ID, and a new safety section for apps in the Play store. The advertising ID is an identifier unique to an Android device which is supplied by Google Play Services. Since every app on that device can retrieve the same …
I suspect that they will also move to an "opt-in" approach given how this is approach favoured by both GDPR and the California legislation. But I do wish they'd allow me to log out of YouTube permanently!
They know already how easy it is to get people to sign up for things and sign away their privacy, they should make it easier for the < 10% that doesn't want to.
It's pretty simple to set your Ad Id to a new UUID:
NEWADID=$(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid)
sed -ri "s/[0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}/$NEWADID" </data/data/com.google.android.gms/shared_prefs/adid_settings.xml
At a guess, it will be set to UUID format made of zeros. Might try setting it to that now.