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Disable Your Device’s Ad ID

Photo: Sean Gallup
Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty Images)

Every phone comes baked with a preset identifier meant to better target ads inside the apps a person downloads and on the sites that they visit. As you’d expect, there’s a lot of data about you and your browsing history in there—which is why these IDs are quickly becoming a go-to tool among prosecutors looking to convict people on a wide range of charges. Thankfully, it’s not hard to keep your ID a secret: the Digital Defense Fund included a full guide as part of its abortion privacy tipsheet.