Ever look up vests on Google, or just the word “invest,” and
for weeks it shows you ads on vests? What’s disturbing is not so much their
taste in vests (which is questionable), but the fact they are tracking every
word you use. Supposedly, this is just to do nice things for you like show you
ads for stuff you like. Right. Why don’t we just let them search through our
wallets? (More on that later.)
Kim Commando is a very reliable tech guru who has been giving
valuable free advice for years. If you want to stop Google’s personalized ads, click here and go down to “Here's how to turn off Google's personalized ads.” The
interfaces may look a little different from what she described, but the process
works. Google’s ads only have short-term memory for me now.
That’s a start. But is that the end of Google’s data
collection efforts on you? For irony, look at this puff piece they’ve put out
for themselves. It’s funny at 2:50. The woman says, “Google has such a wide
reach, so anything that I work on, I know it’s impacting, like, hundreds of
thousands, probably millions.”
But it’s all to do nice things for you. Right.
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