Advertising-ID

Contextual Targeting

Advertising-ID is a unique identifier that corresponds to a single specific device. The advertising-ID is stored on the device itself.

Different operating systems have different names for the advertising-ID in their system. In Apple’s iOS it’s ‘IDFA’, in Android ‘AAID’, Roku, ‘RIDA’; Amazon ‘AFAI’, etc.

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