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People need to realize, the NDAA is trying to get online advertisers to Voluntarily honor your request(s) to stop sending unwanted ads. The same principle as “Do Not Track” requests are sent. This App simply provides a more “user-friendly” version of NDAA’s own. Until we, the end-users of the Internet, (who control the income flow by our purchasing power), elect politicians who believe in Fair Market Principals & end-user privacy rights over corporate “entity rights”, unwanted ads will be the status quo.

I rely pretty heavily on reviews for apps in my browsing and shopping on the App Store but if I went by was the star ratings alone I would get things wrong too often. Taking the time to actually read through the reviews for this app, I noticed that people give me a negative reviews are complaining that he does not do something it does not even advertise/claim that it will do. This app is designed to opt you out of receiving personalized ads. NOT block ads all together. So far it does seem to do a fair job at killing the personalization of ads that I see. It used to be that I could browse/shop for a particular item in one app like eBay and then use my web browser and see an ad pop up for the exact item I viewed elsewhere. I was even seeing adds related to subjects I had previously browsed online in private mode popping up everywhere no matter how many times I went to add settings and opted out which was extremely frustrating for me. So far I am seeing improvement although it does take some time for some settings to update.

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Just a reminder because lots of people are stupid and don’t read. This WILL NOT disable ads. This is only to opt out of PERSONALIZED ads. This will stop advertising companies from tracking your web/app usage and hitting you with ads targeted toward your interests. Instead you will be blasted with general ads not specifically aimed at you or your interests. The only reason I gave it one star. Is because the DAA is garbage and ads are pointless altogether. Just download the app opt out for all then delete it. All set! If you don’t want to see ads anymore get Adblock. I would recommend doing both. If you use only adblockers your app/internet usage is still tracked and sent back to the DAA but you just won’t see the personal ads they send you. So do both. Then they cant steal your info or hit you with ads. But seriously ads are garbage and they don’t work. If we want your product we will buy it. But spamming me with ads does the opposite. I won’t buy your garbage

In order for the app to work you have to disable the feature in your iPhone privacy settings that limits ad tracking. I don’t know if this app provides greater privacy protection than opting out of ad tracking but it seems that I have to choose between one or the other.

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So, I read the reviews, positive ones said you need to read the app and it tells you how it works and what it does. However when you view the list of ad companies, and try and follow the instructions to opt out, the opt out button doesn’t work. It just does nothing. Same goes for the select all button, nothing. It’s basically an info app at this point. I mean, I'm an app developer and so I don’t typically have issues figuring out how an app is supposed to work, this one just seems broken. Am I missing something? Is it only broken on some iPhones?