Reply to post: Format of the "string of zeros"?

Upcoming Android privacy changes include ability to blank advertising ID, and 'safety section' in Play store

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Format of the "string of zeros"?

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.

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