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Can anyone share correct Safari Advanced Settings?
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I disabled Privacy Preserving Ad Measurement.
This site has detailed information on what that does and you can decide to leave it on or turn it off.
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This site has detailed information on what that does and you can decide to leave it on or turn it off.
Safari for iPhone Lets Advertisers Track Your 'Clicks' — Here's How to Disable It
Apple wants to support the advertising economy, but its primary focus of late has been user privacy and security. In Safari, cross-site tracking, which lets content providers track you across websites and apps to show you more targeted ads, is disabled by default. However, content providers can...
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Mine are exactly the same as in your screenshot, which I believe are the default settings.
Advanced tracking and Finger print is only set to „private mode“ by default at least I didn’t even know this setting even existed and I just changed it from that to all browsing
Ok. Mine was private and I set it to all browsing.
So by default it’s private, right? Does changing it to all browsing mess with anything negatively?
This has not come up, but I will contribute here. I run a Pi-hole for blocking ads and tracking links. When enabling that to all browsing, it seems you are telling your device to run through Apple's DNS for privacy regardless of what your network DNS settings are. As when I have it set to Private, I get spammed with ads on the same site where in non-private are blocked from my Pi-hole.