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What does google think of you?
« on: March 09, 2012, 12:42:32 am »
You can use this link

http://www.google.com/ads/preferences

To see what google thinks your age, sex, and interests are.

copy / paste the list of interests google claims you have.


Here's what it said about me


Age: 18-24
Gender: Male

Arts & Entertainment - Humor - Spoofs & Satire
Arts & Entertainment - Music & Audio - Dance & Electronic Music
Computers & Electronics - Programming
Computers & Electronics - Programming - C & C++
Computers & Electronics - Software - Multimedia Software - Graphics & Animation Software
Games - Computer & Video Games
Games - Online Games
News - Weather
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Re: What does google think of you?
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2012, 12:44:58 am »
I do not have an id cookie. I'm satisfied with this turn of events.
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Re: What does google think of you?
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2012, 12:45:51 am »
Quote from: Bauglir on March 09, 2012, 12:44:58 am
I do not have an id cookie. I'm satisfied with this turn of events.
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Re: What does google think of you?
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2012, 12:46:33 am »
It thinks that my cookies aren't enabled.
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Re: What does google think of you?
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2012, 12:47:19 am »
Quote from: Bauglir on March 09, 2012, 12:44:58 am
I do not have an id cookie. I'm satisfied with this turn of events.
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Re: What does google think of you?
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2012, 12:49:37 am »
So I'm the only one Google keeps tabs on?
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Re: What does google think of you?
« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2012, 12:51:27 am »
Quote from: Valid_Dark on March 09, 2012, 12:49:37 am
So I'm the only one Google keeps tabs on?

Either you enabled cookies manually, or you're using internet explorer/some other browser that enables them automatically.
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Re: What does google think of you?
« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2012, 12:52:40 am »
Which is to say, most browsers (firefox and, IIRC, chrome, don't know about others). I've just disabled as many of google's services as I can. Can't speak for anyone else.
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In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
Minsky then shut his eyes. “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.
“So that the room will be empty.”
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

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Re: What does google think of you?
« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2012, 12:53:13 am »
I don't have it enabled. I dunno if it's supposed to be enabled by default and I just noscripted it a long time ago or if you need to opt in in the first place.
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Re: What does google think of you?
« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2012, 12:53:44 am »
Quote from: Valid_Dark on March 09, 2012, 12:49:37 am
So I'm the only one Google keeps tabs on?
No, no, I had a cookie too. All I'll say is the only thing they guessed right was gender. Close on a couple things, but wrong pretty much all around.

Mind you, any ads at all directed at me is kinda' silly because I'm both broke and probably wouldn't pay for the products of anyone able to afford google ads anyway, but that's neither here nor there, I guess.
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Re: What does google think of you?
« Reply #10 on: March 09, 2012, 12:55:37 am »
Quote from: Frumple on March 09, 2012, 12:53:44 am
Quote from: Valid_Dark on March 09, 2012, 12:49:37 am
So I'm the only one Google keeps tabs on?
No, no, I had a cookie too. All I'll say is the only thing they guessed right was gender. Close on a couple things, but wrong pretty much all around.

Mind you, any ads at all directed at me is kinda' silly because I'm both broke and probably wouldn't pay for the products of anyone able to afford google ads anyway, but that's neither here nor there, I guess.

The fun is in seeing what they got wrong about you,
Mine was pretty dead on, except I'm not really that interested in the weather.

This isn't my computer, but I'm the only one that uses it.
So I'm not allowed to install things to the hard drive and have to use crome.
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Re: What does google think of you?
« Reply #11 on: March 09, 2012, 12:58:13 am »
Quote from: Bauglir on March 09, 2012, 12:44:58 am
I do not have an id cookie. I'm satisfied with this turn of events.
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Looks like you have to opt-in anyway.
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Re: What does google think of you?
« Reply #12 on: March 09, 2012, 01:06:44 am »
but,... I never opt'ed in..
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Re: What does google think of you?
« Reply #13 on: March 09, 2012, 01:58:03 am »
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Opt in to customize your ad preferences and tell Google which interest-based ads you'd prefer to see.

Google is a participating member of the Network Advertising Initiative and follows the industry privacy standards for online advertising. You can opt out of this cookie, as well as other companies' cookies used for interest-based ads, by visiting the aboutads.info choices page. If you want to persist your opt-out of interest-based ads from all NAI member companies, you can install the Keep My Opt-Outs plugin.

I have Firefox's Do Not Track plugin activated, so I no get stalked by googool.
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Re: What does google think of you?
« Reply #14 on: March 09, 2012, 02:05:55 am »
Quote from: New Guy on March 09, 2012, 01:58:03 am
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I have Firefox's Do Not Track plugin activated, so I no get stalked by googool.

How do you gwet that?
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