Protect My Choices Protect My Choices

Productivity
Version: 1.2.6
Last Update: 2021-06-15

Overview

Protect My Choices is a Chrome extension developed by Digital Advertising Alliance. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of Protect My Choices is 1.2.6, updated on 2021-06-15.
70,000+ users have installed this extension. 290 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .
developer website: aboutads.info

Helps preserve your opt-out choices for interest-based ads from companies participating in the DAA Self-Regulatory Program.

Protect My Choices is an extension for users seeking to opt out of interest-based advertising, and to help ensure that their opt-out choices are protected. In one step, it opts your browser out of interest-based advertising performed by companies participating in the industry self-regulatory program for online advertising, and protects those opt out choices by helping to prevent the accidental deletion of cookies that store your choices.

Some things you should know:

* Protect My Choices applies to interest-based advertising by participating companies. Once you install this extension, you will still receive online advertising from participating companies, and the Web sites you visit may still collect information for other purposes.

* As more companies join the industry self-regulatory program, their opt-outs will be added to Protect My Choices. As with all Chrome extensions, you’ll be asked to allow Chrome to update the extension to add new opt-outs. If you do not update the extension, it will be disabled until you update it. You can confirm that your opt-outs have been set at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/. You can always check the status of your extensions by clicking Extensions in the Window menu.

* This extension and your opt-out choices apply only in this browser, so you should separately set your preferences for other browsers or computers you may use.

Rating

290 ratings

Total Installs

70,000+

Information

Last Update

2021-06-15

Current Version

1.2.6

Size

37.64KiB

Author

Digital Advertising Alliance

Website

aboutads.info

Category

Productivity

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avatar RiNo Oga
2022-04-29

Doesn't work.

avatar oldman
2022-04-16

I find it really doesn't work as advertised

avatar John Spalvins
2022-01-31

Perhaps I don't understand what this extension is actually supposed to do, but I use on average 8-12 browsers from Google across 5 devices (all synced) and still get interest-based ads even though I have it checked to opt-out in my settings in my profile, and every single time I update anything, unsync/resync to my account, essentially make any change to any one of my browsers, besides finding that my account "mysteriously" has opt-out disabled once again, Google Ad Settings (YourAdChoices/IBA) seems to think that all 126 or 128 companies listed seems to think that I wish to "Customize Ads for My Browser".
As an experiment, I've gone in to the Ad settings on every single browser on a very regular basis, and most of the time, I'm "magically" unchosen to opt-out once again. Personally uBlock Origin id the only solution I've discovered that has an actual effect on my browsing experience with Chrome.

avatar Colette Ryan
2021-12-15

How do I uninstall it?

avatar
2021-06-18

it doesn't work.