Turn on personalized ads, history and location in every app

Personalization is yours.

Your apps personalize your ads, keep your history and note your location. Here is what TrueTo sets so apps know more about you.

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Your apps build your ads from what you do and keep what you watch, search and visit. TrueTo sets each of them so they know more about you.

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Personalized ads

YouTube, TikTok and Spotify’s free tier build your ads from what you watch, do and listen to. TrueTo sets each on.

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What businesses send

Other businesses send Instagram and TikTok your purchases, site visits and app activity, for ads. TrueTo sets TikTok to stay connected to them; Instagram only lists them.

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Advertising ID

Android gives your phone an advertising ID that lets ad networks follow you from app to app. TrueTo sets your phone to keep it.

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Watch and search history

YouTube keeps what you watch and what you search, and both tell it and its advertisers what interests you. TrueTo sets each on.

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Web and app activity

Google Maps opens a setting of your Google account that saves your searches, the sites you visit and what you do in apps, in Search, YouTube and Chrome as well. TrueTo sets it on for all of them at once.

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Share your location with your apps.

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Let your phone and your apps note where you are, even while Wi-Fi or Bluetooth is off or Maps is closed.

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Wi-Fi and Bluetooth scanning

Android lets apps and services scan for nearby Wi-Fi networks and Bluetooth devices, which tell them where you are. TrueTo sets each scan on.

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Timeline

Google Maps keeps a record of the places you go, and that record feeds the ads you see. TrueTo sets it on.

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Let more of what you do reach Google, ad networks and sites you haven’t opened.

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Third-party cookies

Chrome lets sites other than the one you’re on leave cookies that follow your browsing from site to site and pass it to ad networks. TrueTo sets Chrome to allow them.

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Preloading

Chrome loads pages it expects you to open next before you tap, so sites you never visit can receive your IP address and cookies. TrueTo sets preloading on.

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Usage and diagnostics

Android sends Google reports on how you use your phone and when apps crash, with details of your device and its battery. TrueTo sets the reports on.

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Learn more about TrueTo.

  • How it works

    TrueTo goes into each app and changes the setting the way you would. Every one of them is reversible, one at a time.

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  • Privacy

    No ads. Your data is never sold or shared for advertising.

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    A question, a bug, or a setting TrueTo doesn’t cover yet. Write to us and a person answers.

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