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V-268526CAT II — Medium severitySV-268526r1034518_rule

The macOS system must disable Personalized Advertising.

Rule version APPL-15-002200 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

Ad tracking and targeted ads must be disabled.

The information system must be configured to provide only essential capabilities. Disabling ad tracking ensures that applications and advertisers are unable to track users' interests and deliver targeted advertisements.

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable Personalized Advertising with the following command:

/usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript << EOS $.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.applicationaccess')\ .objectForKey('allowApplePersonalizedAdvertising').js EOS

If the result is not "false", this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the macOS system to disable Personalized Advertising by installing the "com.apple.applicationaccess" configuration profile.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-268526
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-268526r1034518_rule
Check ID
C-72556r1034516_chk
Fix ID
F-72457r1034517_fix