Oh Google! You so funny!
Google changed their privacy policies lately. Which spawned a bunch of articles with the intention of teaching the less-technical on how to protect themselves from Google's Datamining:
http://www.wikihow.com/Increase-Privacy-with-Google
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1139044--google-privacy-rules-changed-today-here-s-what-to-do-if-you-missed-the-deadline-to-protect-yourself?bn=1
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/29/tech/web/protect-privacy-google/index.html
I checked these out and came across some gems on what Google has "assumed" about me based on my searches. The first one is pretty accurate:
Your categories
Below you can review a summary of the interests and inferred demographics that Google has associated with your cookie. You can remove or edit your categories at any time.
Arts & Entertainment - Comics & Animation - Anime & Manga
Arts & Entertainment - Music & Audio - Soundtracks
Games - Computer & Video Games
Games - Online Games
Shopping - Apparel
The second one is what I'm laughing about:
Your demographics
We infer your age and gender based on the websites you've visited. You can remove or edit these at any time.
Age: 18-24
Gender: MaleSee? I'm a younger male. heeeee! What's additionally funny about it is that while I do like gaming and things meant for demographics younger than me; I ignore google advertising, and have only clicked 1 ad out of the many many years I've been using google's services. Maybe they should actually look at any of my profile pages.. they list me as a 33yr old female.
Interested in what google's tied together about you? use these links:
https://www.google.com/dashboard/
https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/
(you may need to sign in to your google account to see it if you have one)
http://www.wikihow.com/Increase-Privacy-with-Google
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1139044--google-privacy-rules-changed-today-here-s-what-to-do-if-you-missed-the-deadline-to-protect-yourself?bn=1
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/29/tech/web/protect-privacy-google/index.html
I checked these out and came across some gems on what Google has "assumed" about me based on my searches. The first one is pretty accurate:
Your categories
Below you can review a summary of the interests and inferred demographics that Google has associated with your cookie. You can remove or edit your categories at any time.
Arts & Entertainment - Comics & Animation - Anime & Manga
Arts & Entertainment - Music & Audio - Soundtracks
Games - Computer & Video Games
Games - Online Games
Shopping - Apparel
The second one is what I'm laughing about:
Your demographics
We infer your age and gender based on the websites you've visited. You can remove or edit these at any time.
Age: 18-24
Gender: MaleSee? I'm a younger male. heeeee! What's additionally funny about it is that while I do like gaming and things meant for demographics younger than me; I ignore google advertising, and have only clicked 1 ad out of the many many years I've been using google's services. Maybe they should actually look at any of my profile pages.. they list me as a 33yr old female.
Interested in what google's tied together about you? use these links:
https://www.google.com/dashboard/
https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/
(you may need to sign in to your google account to see it if you have one)