Android privacy settings

Privacy checkup: Limit Ad Tracking up 216% on iOS, but down 85% on Android (March 2020)

That makes sense as I didn't even know there was such a setting in Android.
It is under Settings - Google - Ads - "Opt out of Ads Personalization".

There is also an option on that page to "Reset advertising ID". The Google Advertising ID (GAID), from what I understand, is a way for advertisers to track your ad-related activity across different apps.

That said, I'm leaving the personalization on for now, as I use very few apps with ads, and don't recall being annoyed by any at the moment.

online TV streams freezing during ads - potential work-around

I've been streaming the show "A Million Little Things" on the abc.com website.
I used the MS-Edge browser for it at first. But there was a problem - except for the ads at the start of the show, the ads did not play. At the ad breaks, the playback simply froze and didn't continue even if I waited for several minutes. I got past the problem a few times by reloading the page but later even doing that didn't help.

So that day I switched to using the Chrome browser. It had some problems too, but at least the playback didn't freeze and I was able to watch the show.

But today while watching another episode, my Chrome browser froze up at the ads like MS-Edge did last time. Reloading the page multiple times didn't help.

So then I tried playing the show in a Chrome incognito window. That way, the ads played fine and I was able to finish watching the show. So hopefully this method will work next time too.