How to Disable Ad Tracking on All Your Devices in 2024

Abeerah Hashim  - Security Expert
Last updated: January 1, 2024
Read time: 25 minutes
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Learn how to disable ad tracking on Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, and all other devices. Prevent the advertisers from invading your privacy.

THE TAKEAWAYS

Alongside government, ISPs, and spies, advertising agencies are also racing to track users’ internet activities. Mostly, they use cookies, digital fingerprints, and web trackers to access your personal and device information, such as IP address, online and physical location, age group, browsing preferences, and much more. This way, they can bombard you with ads all around the internet, which they perceive as complimenting your interests. Such advertisements may have some positive aspects. Yet, they compromise users’ online privacy, making them vulnerable to cyber-attacks. This guide lists effective ways to disable ad tracking across any device and preserve online privacy.

Imagine you go out for a pleasant solitary stroll. A car on your way catches your attention. You keep your eyes on it for a few seconds and then move on. And suddenly, some sales guys surround you from everywhere while promoting the best car brands, car tires, car seats, and accessories, or even telling you about the upcoming deals for your car.

Does it sound horrific? Won’t you think of that as an intrusion into your privacy? There only are meager chances that you won’t mind such intrusion as you had the plan to invest in cars.

That is precisely what’s happening in the internet world today, which we call ad tracking.

Every website you visit, every online purchase you make, and everything you do online are being observed.

So, to help you eliminate such annoyances, we guide you on disabling ad tracking across all your devices.

How to disable ad tracking on most-used devices: Quick guide

If you are well-versed with all your device settings and don’t want any detailed tutorials, no problem. Here we quickly list the general settings for your respective devices to disable advertisement tracking.