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Thu 26 Jan, 2012 07:05 pm
Kind of cool, and maybe scary - Google shows you what they think you are based on cookie info
http://t.co/DoN5VdEw
I applaud they're openness about this stuff - if you don't know why this is important you should watch this
Ted Talk on internet bubble filters - I've taken to using
http://duckduckgo.com/ to double check on what I'm missing out on.
Here's mine - Google is such a flatterer.
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Your categories
Below you can review the interests and inferred demographics that Google has associated with your cookie. You can remove or edit these at any time.
Arts & Entertainment
Arts & Entertainment - Music & Audio
Arts & Entertainment - Music & Audio - Music Reference - Song Lyrics & Tabs
Computers & Electronics - Software - Multimedia Software - Photo & Video Software - Video File Formats & Codecs
Games - Puzzles & Brainteasers
Your demographics
We infer your age and gender based on the websites you've visited. You can remove or edit these at any time.
Age: 18-24
Gender: Male
@hingehead,
I have two google accounts personal and work
My work profile is significantly different:
Quote:Your categories
Below you can review the interests and inferred demographics that Google has associated with your cookie. You can remove or edit these at any time.
Computers & Electronics - Electronics & Electrical - Data Sheets & Electronics Reference
Computers & Electronics - Software - Business & Productivity Software
Pets & Animals - Pets - Cats
Your demographics
We infer your age and gender based on the websites you've visited. You can remove or edit these at any time.
Age: 45-54
Gender: Male
Very curious if anyone gets assigned the wrong gender.
Age: 45-54
Gender: Male
Business & Industrial
World Localities - Asia - West Asia - United Arab Emirates
To be fair, I did clean my computer the last week and my cookie file the other day. But the gender and age are wrong.
My ad blocker is apparently working.
This is good news since my ad preference is to not see any of them.
Quote:Ads Preferences
Cookies are disabled
Your browser's cookies seem to be disabled. Ads Preferences will not work until you enable cookies in your browser. How do I enable cookies?
@hingehead,
interesting
Your categories
Computers & Electronics - Software - Software Utilities
Science - Biological Sciences - Anatomy (porn?)
Shopping
Your demographics
Age: 45-54
Gender: Male
i buy books and music on line, is that the shopping, how come books and music don't enter into the equation
the only thing i can think of vaguely relating to software utilities is torrenting tv shows
and seriously, the biology has to be porn
@djjd62,
gender and age are dead on
@djjd62,
You're so funny deej.
I'm guessing that the online shopping doesn't show because you aren't using Google to find the items - Amazon won't update a google cookie (I mean it could but they wouldn't bother (unless there was some sort of business advantage - actually I'm not sure they could anyway technically without some sort of PGP key - woefully ignorant on this stuff)
@Ceili,
Hey Ceili - didn't take long to find a digital gender reassignment. I wonder if it will change over time?
@Butrflynet,
Hi BFN - do you find any inconveniences associated with cookie-blocking? I remember once telling IE to check for confirmation every time a site wanted to set a cookie - drove me insane. I like Amazon recognising me (again I'm woefully ignorant of the privacy implications).
@Ceili,
I have always thought you were a 52 year old male.
Joe(Now we know,)Nation :-)
@hingehead,
Nope, not at all. If there is a site I want to use and they insist on being able to put cookies on my PC, I just exclude them individually from the ad block.
There are very few sites like those that I'm so keenly interested in using. I can usually find alternatives.
@Ceili,
but it pegged you as Asian...
@Rockhead,
Expect a PM from Jgoldman
@hingehead,
I wonder what happened to that little freak...
@Joe Nation,
Sssshhhhh! I like to maintain the mystery.. lol
@Rockhead,
Ha ha.. Too funny. Didn't even think of that, however, no orange to be seen, you might have noticed.
Ah, quite funny. I'm going to let them keep thinking this way:
Your categories
Below you can review the interests and inferred demographics that Google has associated with your cookie. You can remove or edit these at any time.
Games - Puzzles & Brainteasers slightly true, sporadically
Shopping - Apparel - yeh, I go to the goodwill once in a while, say every three months, for books; haven't bought new clothes in at least four years, even at goodwill. I already had a lot of clothes, have been downsizing. I do read the odd style article, or did when I followed the New York Times.
World Localities - North America - USA - California - Southern California - Los Angeles - see below
World Localities - North America - USA - Southwest (USA) - New Mexico - Albuquerque-Santa Fe - anyone who is a regular at a2k knows I'm interested in a lot of places around the world.
Your demographics
We infer your age and gender based on the websites you've visited. You can remove or edit these at any time.
Age: 55-64
Gender: Male
wrong and wrong
They totally missed any interest of mine in sports, art, architecture, medicine, politics, travel, food, animals, yadda yadda.
They do keep giving me ads about Albuquerque and Santa Fe. I'm more interested in New York, London, Rome, etc. to see other people's shopping opportunities.
@hingehead,
apparently Set and I are a mystery
Quote:Your categories and demographics
No interest or demographic categories are associated with your ads preferences so far. You can add or edit interests and demographics at any time.
gonna try it on another browser to see if anything shows up
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