{"id":3073,"date":"2011-01-05T14:17:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T20:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2011-01-05T14:17:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T20:17:39","slug":"opt-out-of-targeted-advertising-on-your-iphoneipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=3073","title":{"rendered":"Opt out of &#8220;targeted&#8221; advertising on your iPhone\/iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed some of the ads on your iPhone are for things you are marginally interested in? That&#8217;s because <a href=\"http:\/\/advertising.apple.com\/brands\/\">the iPhone iAd system is passively targeting<\/a> your &#8220;Demographic(s), Application preferences, Music passions, Movie, TV and audiobook genre interests, Location, Device (iPhone, iPod touch) and Network (WiFi, 3G)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So Apple sees me when I&#8217;m reading? They know when I&#8217;m awake? They know&#8230; waitaminute, that&#8217;s Santa&#8217;s gig!<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, there <strong><em>is<\/em><\/strong> a way to opt out of targeted advertising on the iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>While you are on your iPhone, go to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oo.apple.com\">http:\/\/oo.apple.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once you visit that site, the message &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT4228\">You have successfully opted out<\/a>&#8221; will appear and you will be automatically opted out of interest-based ads&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>You will have to do this on every device you have, though. (It&#8217;s not account based, but hardware based.)<\/p>\n<p>You will still see ads on the apps that push them, but they will only be &#8220;generic&#8221; ads and not anything based on what they know about you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed some of the ads on your iPhone are for things you are marginally interested in? That&#8217;s because the iPhone iAd system is passively targeting your &#8220;Demographic(s), Application preferences, Music passions, Movie, TV and audiobook genre interests, Location, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=3073\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ipad","category-iphone","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pfyw-Nz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3074,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions\/3074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}