I noticed an issue with the ads that appear in my apps such as my games. Most if not all the ads are in a different language most of them are in Chinese. I don't have any other language settings on my phone besides English. I have no other reason for why the ads would be in different languages. Is this a normal thing or is there something wrong.
somebody told me that the ads are tailored to me but I'm not sure why that would be because the ads have nothing to do with me. i usually don't mind ads because in the past the ads of recommended other games that i have downloaded. but know it is showing games and apps in Chinese characters. i was told if i switch on limit adtracking they would go away but now there are no app recommendation ads, the ads shown are just basic ads for websites. essentially what i am asking is if there is something that is affecting what ads are shown to me and if i can change that
Here's what I found so far, besides the info in this article: Opt out of interest-based ads in the App Store and Apple News - Apple Support
Choose Your Advertising Preferences
Opt-out of ads targeted based on your location
You may choose to opt out of receiving location-based advertising and Offers on your iOS device by opening āSettingsā, tapping āPrivacyā, tapping āLocation Servicesā, tapping āSystem Servicesā, and sliding the Location-Based Apple Ads switch to āoffā. Appleās advertising platform does not receive location-based information when you turn off Location Services on your device.Opt-out of targeted advertising
You may choose to enable Limit Ad Tracking on iOS by opening āSettings,ā then tapping on āPrivacy,ā then āAdvertisingā, and sliding the Limit Ad Tracking switch to āonā. To enable Limit Ad Tracking on Apple TV open āSettingsā, select āGeneralā then āPrivacyā, and set āLimit Ad Trackingā to āon.āIf you chose to enable Limit Ad Tracking, Apple's advertising platform will opt your Apple ID out of receiving ads targeted to your interests regardless of what device you are using. Apps or advertisers that do not use Apple's advertising platform are required to check the Limit Ad Tracking setting and are not permitted by Appleās guidelines to serve you targeted ads if you have Limit Ad Tracking enabled.
Whenever you want to clear the data associated with your Advertising Identifier, you can simply reset it. To reset your Advertising Identifier on iOS, open āSettingsā, tap āPrivacyā, tap āAdvertisingā, and tap āReset Advertising Identifierā. To reset your Advertising Identifier on Apple TV, open āSettingsā, then select āGeneralā, select āPrivacyā, and click āReset Advertising Identifier.ā
When you enable Limit Ad Tracking, your advertising identifier is set to null for third party apps. It is automatically reset to a new random identifier when you disable Limit Ad Tracking.
If you enable Limit Ad Tracking, you may still receive the same number of ads, but the ads may be less relevant to you.
copied from: About Advertising & Privacy - Apple Support
what i am trying to find out is why these ads they are showing me are cartered to me in the past i have never seen ads like this (ads in other languages) i would like to be able to fix this so the ads i receive are actually suited to me.
i have tried turing off ad tracking but the ads they then show are very irrelevant ads and i understand that that is the purpose but i don't like that. i just want to find out why these developers are showing me these ads.
Sorry, but if you don't like the ads, removing the app in question would be the only way to stop that.
Did you already check the webpage of these developers and see if they mention anything about advertisements in their apps and if they can be stopped?
If these games are 3rd party apps, they might as well be programed to display adds, especially if these were free apps or if you can disable the adds by making an in-app-purchase.
i downloaded the games from the app store they were all free and there are no in app purchases made. these ads don't just appear in on game it appears in many of my games but not all of them.
Some developers do that to make some extra money, some just like to create a nice game.š
Did you check if there are privacy settings for those apps in Settings/Privacy?
If yes, you can limit the info they try to pass on to the developer that way.
no there are none.
most of the apps that have these sort of ads are seen in games developed by ketchapp.
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