There were some funny choices in mine. Apparently I'm twice my age, love race cars, sports, and reptiles. All wrong.
See what Google knows about you
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
To clarify: they're not personally targeted. With re-targeting they target a browser that's been to a site but hasn't converted. No company I know of targets based on specific identity. It's a 3-way deal. I'd like to see fewer ads, without any obnoxious flash/animation. Also, ads that pay publishers more money for their traffic - and help advertisers find markets. The current market is completely broken; obnoxious ad…
To clarify: they're not personally targeted. With re-targeting they target a browser that's been to a site but hasn't converted. No company I know of targets based on specific identity. But what do you mean by "targets based on a specific identity?" Clearly the intent is to target the same person who went to a site but did not convert. That sounds like targeting based on a specific identity to me. Also, I can name at…
They're not targeting individuals; they're targeting traits. That's the difference he's talking about.
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#93“Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at googleads.g.doubleclick.net.”
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#94If anyone is interested, I found this existed from a daily newsletter I subscribed to - http://dlewis.net/nik/
Sure the things on the list aren't that bad, but if google can get that much just from you browsing the web they could probably get a lot more. And yeah they are transparent by showing what they know about you and it's one click to opt-out but how would someone even find that page in the first place.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm curious. Why do you want ads shown to you NOT be targeted? I want unsolicited ads to not be targeted for several reasons: 1) I don't want people to necessarily infer my interests/character based on ads they see when I'm just browsing the web. "Dude, why do you have porn ads all the time when you browse the web?" 2) I don't need to be sold to on a constant basis. Unless I'm in the market for something, I generally…
"Google does not associate sensitive interest categories with your ads preferences." So I think we are pretty safe on 1) .
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Modified host file, no need to install software and it's multi-browser. No information about me.
tell me more about your hosts file.
Here's one i've seen linked around a lot, but never used myself: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt
I personally prefer Ghostery because it tells me exactly what was blocked and when.
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#97This is refreshing to see in some ways. I hope Google becomes even better at targeting.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Modified host file, no need to install software and it's multi-browser. No information about me.
tell me more about your hosts file.
Here is the one I use:
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
I had to rename it to see the site the OP linked, and it had no preference nor any personal info. I'll try it on my work computer on which I don't have neither a hosts file or an adblock when I'll get there.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
tell me more about your hosts file.
Here is the one I use: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ I had to rename it to see the site the OP linked, and it had no preference nor any personal info. I'll try it on my work computer on which I don't have neither a hosts file or an adblock when I'll get there.
thank you too!