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Offline Darren Dirt

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who does Google think you are?
« on: January 26, 2012, 09:19:49 AM »
http://www.google.com/ads/preferences

found via http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1121693--here-s-how-to-find-out-what-google-knows-about-you


mine was pretty close. the age was a bit off (but I'm not complaining if it still thinks I'm under 35  ;D )
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Re: who does Google think you are?
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2012, 09:28:29 AM »
That's creepily accurate...
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Re: who does Google think you are?
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2012, 09:41:42 AM »
It wasn't as accurate as I'd have liked but it was pretty good. I decided to tweak the interests bit. see if I get more useful ads.
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Re: who does Google think you are?
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2012, 12:28:34 PM »
This is all I see

Your categories and demographics
No interest or demographic categories are associated with your ads preferences so far. You can add or edit interests and demographics at any time.
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Re: who does Google think you are?
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2012, 02:49:04 PM »
Quote from: Lazybones on January 26, 2012, 12:28:34 PM
No interest or demographic categories are associated with your ads preferences so far.

Lucky you.
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Re: who does Google think you are?
« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2012, 03:34:52 PM »
Quote from: Darren Dirt on January 26, 2012, 02:49:04 PM
Quote from: Lazybones on January 26, 2012, 12:28:34 PM
No interest or demographic categories are associated with your ads preferences so far.

Lucky you.

Might be because I use http://www.ghostery.com/ on my main browsers, however I may have opted out of some thing a long time ago.
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Re: who does Google think you are?
« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2012, 04:43:25 PM »
Protecting Yourself with Ghostery:

http://youtu.be/ie0vKmpAWeg

Kinda funny - reducing the risks without reducing the participation.
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Re: who does Google think you are?
« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2012, 05:21:21 PM »
Quote from: Thorin on January 26, 2012, 04:43:25 PM
Protecting Yourself with Ghostery:

http://youtu.be/ie0vKmpAWeg

Kinda funny - reducing the risks without reducing the participation.

Lol I had not seen that video before. I use ghostery in addition to ad blocking. I suppose that makes me evil but I am ok with that.
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Re: who does Google think you are?
« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2012, 10:34:13 AM »
Also if you use AdBlock and its ilk it tends to block advertising partner cookies that Google has access to
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Re: who does Google think you are?
« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2012, 11:09:37 PM »
http://www.google.com/policies/faq/ the details. Effective March 1st.
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Re: who does Google think you are?
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2012, 01:25:22 PM »
Quote from: Mr. Analog on January 27, 2012, 10:34:13 AM
Also if you use AdBlock and its ilk it tends to block advertising partner cookies that Google has access to

AdBlock is not very effective at blocking tracking cookies, Where as that is all Ghostery tracks... If you run both you see this fairly clearly. Flash also has cookies, so if you want to stop that, you need to run flashblock as well.
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Re: who does Google think you are?
« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2012, 08:51:40 AM »
I uninstalled Flash when Homestar Runner stopped getting regular updates and YouTube went to HTML5...

At home anyway...
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Re: who does Google think you are?
« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2012, 10:18:10 AM »
Quote from: Mr. Analog on January 30, 2012, 08:51:40 AM
I uninstalled Flash when Homestar Runner stopped getting regular updates and YouTube went to HTML5...

At home anyway...
I watch a lot of youtube on my htpc now. XBMC ftw.
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