{"id":35955,"date":"2021-06-03T17:57:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T00:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35955"},"modified":"2021-06-03T17:57:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T00:57:40","slug":"google-will-launch-an-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35955","title":{"rendered":"Google will launch an update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google will launch an update to let Android users opt out of tracking features to limit targeted ads later this year, according to the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/smmlwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshbbpkkbc_ibvymmvhvwydhhndgdcz.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/smmlwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshbbpkkbc_ibvymmvhvwydhhndgdcz.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1622847509443000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHUn9TVOyP5e-ViGwmuG6TfbVw7sw\">support website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The planned update comes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ebtpjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwrrqhhrb_ibvymmvhvwydhhndgdcz.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ebtpjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwrrqhhrb_ibvymmvhvwydhhndgdcz.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1622847509443000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFM45KsXBnJhPkxnY6SrWzzJno8HQ\">after Apple launched<\/a>\u00a0a similar anti-tracking feature in March that was cheered by privacy advocates but faced fierce pushback from social media giant Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>For Android users, the update will come as part of a Google Play services update in \u201clate 2021,\u201d according to Google.<\/p>\n<p>If a user opts out of personalized ads, the user\u2019s unique advertising identifier will not be available. Instead, it will appear as a string of zeros in place of the identifier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google will launch an update to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35956,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35955\/revisions\/35956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}