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Tech Check: Want to stop online tracking? Take these steps to protect your privacy

Apps use online tracking to target the ads you see. Here’s how you can stop it.

We’ve all experienced looking at something on the internet, and later, seeing an ad for it on another platform. Apps track your usage online to target advertisements to you. If you don’t want this to happen, a new feature lets you put a stop to it.

Amy Iverson shares details about the latest Apple update. She shares how to turn off tracking, and what that means for your online privacy. She also shares a possible downside to this option.

Find more tech advice from Amy at www.deseret.com/amy.