Re:Google – My Activity
by tombrossman on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @12:03AM
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> Perhaps that is because they are unable to join your advertising profile with your account, under various terms of services and agreements.
You should read this and reconsider. From the article: "The change is enabled by default for new Google accounts. Existing users were prompted to opt-in to the change this summer." https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-droppe...
Re:Google – My Activity
by Godel_unicode on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @02:00AM
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So? "Users were prompted to opt-in" != "Everyone chose to opt-in".
Re:Google – My Activity
by thecatspaw on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @03:12AM
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in my past experience google is a master in disguising these opt-in prompts as mandatory, with a tiny tiny X somewhere or a "skip" button only showing up when unticking the correct checkboxes
"We will not combine DoubleClick cookie information with personally identifiable information unless we have your opt-in consent."
So you can't really expect them to be able to cough up the contents of profile 0x3f47d0387acb94857 when asked for the history of your account, if they are forbidden from joining the two domains together.