Disable targeted advertisements and marketing
- Windows onlyThis script improves your privacy on Windows
- Multiple actionsThis page belongs to a category, containing some changes with similar goal.
- Impact: Minimum
System Functionality / Data Loss Risk: Low
This action improves privacy with minimal impact when you run the recommended script.
- Batch (batchfile)These changes use Windows system commands to update your settings.
- 5 scripts
- 1 categories
- Administrator rights requiredThis script requires privilege access to do the system changes
- Fully reversible
You can fully restore this action (revert back to the original behavior) using this website.
The restore/revert methods provided here can help you fix issues.
Overview
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To safeguard against data and online privacy security breaches on Windows, this update illuminates the concept of: disable targeted advertisements and marketing to limit personal privacy measures risks effectively. While we're at it, process to undo adjustments and revert is detailed below.
Preserving digital autonomy is anchored in important privacy security. Configure personal data protection parameters right now: check out these possibilities and decide. Double-check your progress after each step. Catching small mistakes now is much easier than fixing them later.
References
- Self-Regulatory Principles For Online Behavioral Advertising
- Consumer Privacy Choice in Online Advertising: Who Opts Out and at What Cost to Industry?
- Adnostic: Privacy Preserving Targeted Advertising
- FTC Staff Proposes Online Behavioral Advertising Privacy Principles
- The Impact of Privacy Protection on Online Advertising Markets
- Interest-disclosing Mechanisms for Advertising are Privacy-Exposing (not Preserving)
- Consumers' Perceived Privacy Violations in Online Advertising
Technical Details
- To reach deep privacy configurations, this adjustment handles registry security modifications to maintain online data privacy enforcement. It can also stop the system from slowing down, to accomplish optimizing system configurations.
- The configuration here adjusts essential operating system behavior to gain secured system resources and this can to help maintain stricter secure privacy maintenance. This helps efficient operations to be able to make programs work better.
- This tweak changes advertising settings to minimize sensitive data privacy guardrail risks through filtered advertisement content. It can also keep the system running well alongside reduced ad processing load.
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Normal — Everyday Privacy (Enterprise-Grade)
- Recommended for all
- Safe for daily use
- No impact on system stability
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High — Advanced Privacy
- For advanced privacy-conscious users
- May affect some features
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Help
How to apply or restore "Disable targeted advertisements and marketing" using script
- ≈ 2 min to complete
- Tools: Web Browser
- Difficulty: Simple
- ≈ 6 instructions
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Some safe changes minimal system impact.High
Some potentially impactful changes with moderate system impact.
- 2
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Download the script file by clicking on the button above.
Use button above to restore changes. - 3
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- ≈ 3 min to complete
- Tools: privacy.sexy
- Difficulty: Simple
- ≈ 4 instructions
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- Search for the category name: Disable targeted advertisements and marketing
- Check the category by clicking on the checkbox of the category.
Applying Normal to limit the impact.
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Run
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Explore This Guide
- 5 Privacy settings
- 1 Main categories
- These settings are organized into 1 main categories for easy navigation.
- Each main category contains subcategories, helping you find specific settings you might want to adjust.
- 1 Total categories
Choose what to protect based on your needs: Click any option to learn more about what it does. Each change can be applied and reversed individually.
- Some settings and commands may require technical knowledge to apply correctly.
- Most users find the Normal protection above sufficient.
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About the Creators
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undergroundwires- Certified security professional
- 7+ years experience securing banks
- Open-source developer since 2005
- EU advisor, Public Speaker, Moderator
- Open-Source Contributors
- Hundreds across the globe
- Testers, reviewers, developers
- Companies, military agencies
- Community since 2017
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- Millions of end-users tested across different environments
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