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by foxfluff 1582 days ago
It's always fun checking Google's ad settings and seeing what they think I'm into.

Apparently now I'm into baseball, flowers, boating, celebrities, country music, credit cards, geology, event ticket sales, fishing, and windows OS. Among a couple hundred other things. It even gets some rather basic facts (marital status, company size, education) wrong. I seriously wonder how they generate this profile?

2 comments

Check your Google ad settings here...

https://adssettings.google.com/

Well... It actually got some categories right, but I don't really feel that's very impressive considering that it put me in every category by the looks of it.
There's not a lot there for me. Just some generic whether I want to see alcohol and gambling ads on youtube.
With these many categories, it is bound to match me somewhat.
> I seriously wonder how they generate this profile

Poorly!