People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you

Alternative title: People creeped out after woman discovers what tech literate people have been saying to do for a decade

Thanks past me!

To save you some time, it's Google's Ad Center, which the article doesn't even link to, as far as I can tell.

I'm not creeped out by any of the info I found in mine, but I am annoyed. "Yes, Google, I searched for [random thing] twice because I needed to know a little more information. That time has passed because I bought it or the event has passed or whatever. Reminding me about it just makes it weird."

some people might like that it helps them get targeted ads - after all, the tech has crunched all the data, and can advertise things to you that you might actually want.

Hahahahaha Next best thing to ad blocking, is generic ads that you don’t care about and can ignore more easily, and you know that the company is getting paid less for those ads showing.

I've had mine turned off for years, but it doesn't really matter, Google and all these tech giants will still collect whatever info they want regardless.

Even the article about how Google's tracking is bad is loaded with Google trackers.

LoL, I clicked the link above, and EFF's Privacy Badger had replaced the TikTok widget. Thank you, EFF.org!!

lol it has almost nothing on me. Even has my relationship status wrong

ADHD - The ultimate Info Tracking killer

Those same people will be shocked when their smart assistant has saved all past recordings of their requests. Lmfao

Then again, This article is on one of the cancers of the internet "unilad".

Well I had it disabled on my main account, but to be sure I checked my other accounts, which weren't disabled. Turns out Google thinks I'm a high income female who works at a large real estate company. Kind of tempted to visit a bunch of weird sites to poison their data more

I tried to check mine and was extremely glad but underwhelmed that all my accounts have personalized ads turned off. I'm sure Google has tons of info on me anyway though lol 🙃

I turned off my Google account entirely by deleting it in January of 2022. And I use add and tracker blocking DNS functionality on all devices on my network and primarily use open source software. So good luck. They may very well still know stuff about me, but the stuff they are going to know is going to be limited and or very old.

The ad settings are so far off the mark it's not even a little concerning ... besides the fact they where on by default (fixed)

What is concerning is google activity. literally everything you do on your phone is tracked by default

Doesn't tell me anything becasuee I would need to verify I'm over 18, but I'm sure it still collects all that information.

Went to check - had personalised Ads off on every account I have already, so I guess I won't be seeing what Google's got on me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What I want to know is why when I'm talking to my wife in the car about buying new shoes do I get a YouTube ad that evening about new shoes, when I never got that kind of ad before.

Are our phones listening to us while we talk in the car, and then ads are generated from that?

I'd really like to know the answer to that question.

Edit: fixed typo, shoes, not shows.

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